There are a lot of packages in the tree which DEPEND on some version of sys-apps/portage, mostly for historical reasons. Try to avoid doing this in your packages where possible -- if it's a genuine dependency then obviously it should be there, but if the dep is only in the ebuild to avoid hitting a bug that was in portage-2.0.49-r3 (for example), it's unnecessary now. I'm going to be removing some of these redundant deps.
On which note, the current base profile specifies portage-2.0.51.22 or later -- can anyone see a reason not to require 2.1? There are a lot of packages that dep on portage-2.1 for the "wrong" reasons above, which I'd like to be able to clean up. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
