Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPENDing on system components

[Daniel Robbins <drobbins@gentoo.org>]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 08:48:13PM +0200, Achim Gottinger wrote:

> Well the glibc dependencie is there to spearate packages that need glibc from
> those who do not link against it like for example docs or some java binary
> packages. If a package links agains flex then flex should be in the depend
> variable, if it only uses the flex binary during build, you don't have to add
> it to depend.

Well, I'd say that *technically*, you *can* refrain from adding it to DEPEND,
but it's still best to include it.  But technically, Achim is correct.  You
should only need to include flex or gcc in DEPEND if you need to ensure that
you are using a recent version of flex or gcc for building (which may be needed
if, for example, a particular ebuild simply won't compile with a previous
version of flex or gcc.)  Besides that, don't worry about adding standard
development stuff to DEPEND.

Best Regards,

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