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Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 18:25:31 +0100
From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.
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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:16:54 -0600 Joshua Baergen
<joshuabaergen@gentoo.org> 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.

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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron)
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