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.

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