Re: system set no longer in part of world set

2008-07-18 16:01:28 Doug Goldstein napisał(a):
> 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.

IMHO it would be better to teach users to explicitly specify '@system' during
updates, e.g. `emerge -uDN @system @world`.

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