From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUSb3-0001pV-9f for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:28:25 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9PHRToh003057; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:27:29 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id j9PHPZMx009768 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:25:36 GMT Received: from 82-41-57-20.cable.ubr08.edin.blueyonder.co.uk ([82.41.57.20] helo=snowdrop.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EUSYJ-0007lB-GG for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:25:35 +0000 Received: from localhost.home ([127.0.0.1] helo=snowdrop.home) by snowdrop.home with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EUSYH-0003TK-RG for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:25:33 +0100 Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:25:31 +0100 From: Ciaran McCreesh To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies. Message-ID: <20051025182531.5eb4b9a9@snowdrop.home> In-Reply-To: <435E6886.5060708@gentoo.org> References: <1130199485.1413.3.camel@Darkmere.darkmere> <435DB66F.9060807@gentoo.org> <20051025161915.GE23614@bmb24.uth.tmc.edu> <435DFAB1.90603@gentoo.org> <20051025174146.7af88898@snowdrop.home> <435E6886.5060708@gentoo.org> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.13 (GTK+ 2.6.8; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="Signature_Tue__25_Oct_2005_18_25_31_+0100_VIKrfud3Sy0/MXZC"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=PGP-SHA1 X-Archives-Salt: 90c7fecf-5af4-4680-bc5b-cdb108a5c19e X-Archives-Hash: 1de01d406768e198dc6575df7c07e726 --Signature_Tue__25_Oct_2005_18_25_31_+0100_VIKrfud3Sy0/MXZC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:16:54 -0600 Joshua Baergen wrote: | Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | >RDEPEND lists the things that are needed to use a package once it is | >installed. | | Maybe RDEPEND is insufficient to properly describe a library | package. I see a big difference between using and compiling against | a library. I realize you need to compile against it to use it, but | that's certainly not a run-time dependency. Well yes, we already know we need a few dozen more new dependency atoms. But we're dealing with "what we can use currently" here, not some hypothetical future situation. --=20 Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm --Signature_Tue__25_Oct_2005_18_25_31_+0100_VIKrfud3Sy0/MXZC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDXmqN96zL6DUtXhERAnBMAKC1Up/8Tuyf81Q1B2ZafndzbA/GdQCg2QTc 2glZO9qW3XKgdqIUK1Gf0Yc= =khug -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Signature_Tue__25_Oct_2005_18_25_31_+0100_VIKrfud3Sy0/MXZC-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list