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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:41:46 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051025174146.7af88898@snowdrop.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435DFAB1.90603@gentoo.org>

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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:28:17 +0000 Donnie Berkholz
<spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
| I'm still failing to see how headers have anything to do with runtime 
| issues -- it should be people's responsibility to ensure they have
| the necessary headers if they're compiling things that require them.
| And compiling means DEPEND.

Yick. No no no.

DEPEND lists the things that are needed to install a package from
source (or an upstream-provided binary, or whatever).

RDEPEND lists the things that are needed to use a package once it is
installed.

Part of 'using' a library is compiling things against it.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
Mail            : ciaranm at gentoo.org
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-10-25 16:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-10-25  0:18 [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
2005-10-25  4:37 ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-10-25  5:12   ` Joshua Baergen
2005-10-25  5:18   ` Ned Ludd
2005-10-26  8:46     ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-10-25  5:29   ` Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
2005-10-25  5:51     ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-10-25  6:01       ` Spider (D.m.D. Lj.)
2005-10-26  8:45         ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-10-25  7:49   ` Thomas de Grenier de Latour
2005-10-25 12:15   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-25 14:09     ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-10-25 16:03       ` John Myers
2005-10-25 16:39       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-25 10:48         ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-10-25 17:55         ` solar
2005-10-25 19:16           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-25 19:28             ` Olivier Crete
2005-10-25 20:05             ` solar
2005-10-25 20:38               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-26  8:58                 ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-10-27  0:15                   ` Luca Barbato
2005-10-27  7:36                     ` Paul de Vrieze
2005-10-27 13:40                       ` Olivier Crête
2005-10-27 14:14                         ` Ned Ludd
2005-10-25 16:19   ` Grant Goodyear
2005-10-25  9:28     ` Donnie Berkholz
2005-10-25 16:41       ` Ciaran McCreesh [this message]
2005-10-25 17:16         ` Joshua Baergen
2005-10-25 17:25           ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-25 17:37             ` Joshua Baergen
2005-10-25 17:41               ` Joshua Baergen
2005-10-25 17:44             ` Alec Joseph Warner
2005-10-25 17:55               ` Ciaran McCreesh
2005-10-25 16:55       ` Grant Goodyear
2005-10-26  9:04         ` Paul de Vrieze

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