10814 – Package Dependencies section needs additional information

Bug 10814 - Package Dependencies section needs additional information

Summary: Package Dependencies section needs additional information

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	[OLD] Docs-developer
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Developers HOWTO (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Stoyan Zhekov (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-11-16 02:33 UTC by Jared H. Hudson
Modified:	2003-02-04 19:42 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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Description Jared H. Hudson 2002-11-16 02:33:23 UTC

The "Package Dependencies" needs to say that the DEPEND variable needs to only
depend on packages that are needed at compile time but are not included in the
system packages for all architecures. In other words, a program does not need to
DEPEND on sys-devel/gcc, since it's a system package, even though it DOES
technically depend on it for compiling.

The reason for this clarification is that lately I seen users submitting ebuilds
on bugzilla that have system packages like gcc/glibc/sed/ect in the DEPEND list.

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2002-11-16 03:38:44 UTC

i think it would be better to define what packages to not include in the DEPEND
varaible ...
the profile's arent static and it would be hard to track what ebuilds need to be
updated if we remove/add a package to the profile ...

Comment 2 Stoyan Zhekov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-11-24 23:47:38 UTC

Is this bug still active? I think this is still not a documentation team bug. 
It is more ebuilds related.