Bug 176616 – "virtual/libc" shouldn't be used in {,R}DEPEND example

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Community Relations

[Description Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2007-04-30 18:51:34 UTC]

"virtual/libc" shouldn't be used in {,R}DEPEND example (as mentioned in Bug #174260).

[Comment 1 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2007-06-21 14:16:04 UTC]

"sys-libs/zlib" also shouldn't be used because it belongs to system set.

[Comment 2 Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis (RETIRED) 2007-09-16 01:06:02 UTC]

Also http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/devrel/handbook/handbook.xml?part=3&chap=1#doc_chap5.

[Comment 3 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) 2007-09-16 20:14:06 UTC]

betelgeuse@pena ~/proj-en/devrel/handbook $ cvs diff
Index: hb-guide-ebuild.xml
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-guide-ebuild.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.43
diff -u -r1.43 hb-guide-ebuild.xml
--- hb-guide-ebuild.xml 23 Jun 2007 19:59:14 -0000      1.43
+++ hb-guide-ebuild.xml 16 Sep 2007 20:13:35 -0000
@@ -1952,21 +1952,21 @@
 </p>

 <pre caption="Depend example">
-DEPEND="virtual/libc
-        sys-libs/zlib"
-RDEPEND="virtual/libc"
+DEPEND="virtual/opengl
+       dev-libs/libxml2"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
 </pre>

 <p>
 This tells Portage that to build <path>foo-x.y.z</path>, the packages
-<path>virtual/libc</path> (more on  virtuals in a bit) and
-<path>sys-libs/zlib</path> are needed.  It does not say anything about which
-version of glibc or zlib that are needed, which means "anything goes".
+<path>virtual/opengl</path> (more on  virtuals in a bit) and
+<path>dev-lib/libxml2</path> are needed.  It does not say anything about which
+version of opengl or libxml2 that are needed, which means "anything goes".
 </p>

 <p>
 The "anything goes" is of course a bit scary, and will not work in the general
-case. But for central libraries like glibc, which strives very hard to be 100%
+case. But for libraries, which strive very hard to be 100%
 binary compatible all the time, it actually works. For other libraries, we can
 of course specify version dependencies.
 </p>
Index: hb-policy-ebuild.xml
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RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/proj/en/devrel/handbook/hb-policy-ebuild.xml,v
retrieving revision 1.19
diff -u -r1.19 hb-policy-ebuild.xml
--- hb-policy-ebuild.xml        27 Mar 2007 21:35:14 -0000      1.19
+++ hb-policy-ebuild.xml        16 Sep 2007 20:13:35 -0000
@@ -639,8 +639,7 @@

 <pre caption="Example of RDEPEND">
 RDEPEND="${DEPEND}
-       net-ftp/curl
-       virtual/libc"
+       net-ftp/curl"
 </pre>

 <p>