On Monday 11 December 2006 21:10, Joerg Sonnenberger wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 07:58:29PM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> >  * how other OSs handle this
>
> This part always created a lot of grieve for me, as e.g. silent
> dependencies are introduced due to the namespace pollution. Check for
> missing includes e.g. of unistd.h in certain C++ programs in pkgsrc.


and there are hundreds of it! A good percentage of existing patch files do 
nothing but correct for this sort of problem.

cheerio Berndt