Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-16 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 16 June 2005 12:33 am, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:22, Mike Frysinger wrote: tracking packages which need getopt is a waste of time, just force it in your profile/bsd libc/whatever it's not getopt, it's getopt_long... which is used by few

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten
On Thursday 16 June 2005 00:02, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: There are other solutions a part the new virtuals? Ok just to summarize. a) getopt_long isn't important right now, FreeBSD 5 already takes care of it, if in the future it will be necessary for NetBSD, OpenBSD or DragonFly, it will

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-16 Thread Chris Gianelloni
On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 04:41 +0200, Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten wrote: When I fist needed to install libiconv in the Gentoo/FreeBSD I was tinkering with, was just because I needed it ot have glib2 working for irssi.. I was already using that box as ftp and mail server. HAHAHAHA Thanks a

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-16 Thread Marius Mauch
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 15:47:35 +0200 Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: c) main problem is libiconv, but this is required just by a few packages (gettext, glib2, bogofilter) the other uses it with gettext; as they doesn't require a specific version, we can also add dev-libs/

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten
On Thursday 16 June 2005 16:13, Martin Schlemmer wrote: DEPEND=!userland_GNU? ( dev-libs/libiconv ) I'd like to do that but there was disagreement about this before. For me is enough. Just keeping on heaping virtuals for everything is not the only way. Or just pull them in the profile. As I

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-16 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten
On Thursday 16 June 2005 18:07, Mike Frysinger wrote: no, bsd libc doesnt directly require libiconv, but if you're using a bsd/Gentoo system and you have USE=nls, what are the chances you *dont want* libiconv ? Quite a few as 'nls' useflag is already used by freebsd's libc for other means.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-15 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten
On Thursday 16 June 2005 01:13, Olivier Crete wrote: Why dont you just add them to the profile as system packages ? I though of that but I'm not sure about it. I wish to have a systme profile as cleaner as possible and libiconv, gettext and other packages aren't needed for a lot of different

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-15 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 06:02 pm, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: another library, gnugetopt which provides getopt_long function non non-glibc systems. tracking packages which need getopt is a waste of time, just force it in your profile/bsd libc/whatever i dont see why this should affect

Re: [gentoo-dev] Glibc, non-glibc and external libs

2005-06-15 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Petten
On Thursday 16 June 2005 06:22, Mike Frysinger wrote: tracking packages which need getopt is a waste of time, just force it in your profile/bsd libc/whatever it's not getopt, it's getopt_long... which is used by few packages. well actually freebsd provide it in library in latest releases, aslo