[gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-09 Thread Stephen Bennett
And, on a more general note, don't bother depending on a package listed in base/packages. It's pointless and just create more noise. On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 01:11:17 + Stephen Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are a lot of packages in the tree which DEPEND on some version of

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-09 Thread Piotr Jaroszyński
And, on a more general note, don't bother depending on a package listed in base/packages. It's pointless and just create more noise. It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of generated deplist(emerge -e world). AFAIK some packages dep on zlib b/c of that. -- Best

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-09 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:22:52 +0100 Piotr Jaroszyński [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | And, on a more general note, don't bother depending on a package | listed in base/packages. It's pointless and just create more noise. | | It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of |

Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies on system packages

2006-12-09 Thread Stephen Bennett
On Sun, 10 Dec 2006 03:22:52 +0100 Piotr Jaroszyński [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's seems to be needed sometimes b/c it does change the order of generated deplist(emerge -e world). AFAIK some packages dep on zlib b/c of that. If you don't know about the unwritten yet near universal exception