Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

[solar <solar@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:39 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:09:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
> <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
> | I disagree. You shouldn't expect to be able to compile things against
> | it unless all DEPENDs are installed. The whole point of DEPEND is to
> | be able to do things like this; remove all things not necessary for
> | your programs to run, not to compile.
> 
> I'm glad to see you're volunteering to join in with Ned in going
> through every single ebuild in the tree and fixing them up to list nth
> level dependencies. It's going to be really fun watching you update
> several hundred packages every time a library's compile dependencies
> change between versions.


Please do not put words in my mouth. I've already asserted to you
several times that the definition of RDEPEND= is unclear and that we do
infact need a new set of depend atoms. R=(runtime) not Buildtime for the
NNth time. Till then please focus your efforts on something useful that
does not break other peoples systems or projects.

> See, if libfoo-1.0's headers don't need (say) boost, but libfoo-1.1's
> headers do, with what you're proposing you'd have to go through and
> update the dependencies of every single package using libfoo.



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