Re: system set no longer in part of world set

Olivier Crête wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:01 -0400, Doug Goldstein wrote:
>   
>> This brings out the fun of circular depends. I don't really know how to 
>> address this but a lot of packages are going to have to be updated to 
>> contain proper depends. i.e. C based apps will need 
>> RDEPEND="virtual/libc". C++ packages will need a stdc++ depend.
>>     
>
> Adding a dep to libc almost everywhere seems extremely wrong to me. I
> though we had decided many times that it was a bad idea.
>
>   
Yes. Adding libc everywhere is wrong. However, if you don't have one of 
the packages listed here [1], your libc won't ever update.

[1] http://tinderbox.dev.gentoo.org/misc/rindex/virtual/libc
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