On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:37:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
<spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
| Now, the other side of the story. It's not true runtime dependence
| because it's not required for programs to run, only to compile. And
| the way I see it, things required for programs to compile are by
| definition DEPEND rather than RDEPEND.

Not at all. If you've installed libfoo, one of the things you must be
able to do is compile things that use libfoo. This sometimes means that
libfoo would need a non-build-time dependency upon any libraries used
by libfoo's header files.

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