Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

[Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 16:05:00 -0400 solar <solar@gentoo.org> wrote:
| You two are the ones trying to distort the meaning of RDEPEND= 
| simply because the depclean is broken for the cases you make.

Not at all. The 'R' in RDEPEND means 'needed after the compile is
done'. However, for the sake of keeping the tree small, naming the
variable STUFFTHATISNEEDEDAFTERTHECOMPILEISDONEDEPEND is clearly
impractical.

| Where is your GLEP for this? Where is a real like example?
| I'm sure you can dig back in the tree and show us something you had
| to fix in the tree if this is such a problem as you were asserting 
| last night. While your at it please go ahead and show us the code that
| resolves the case for everybody so this silly thread can end.

I'd hope that there aren't any cases of brokenness in the tree right
now. However, if you'd like to manufacture some, an easy way would be
to find any library (call it lib1) that installs a .h file that uses
a .h file from another library (call it lib2), and then remove the
dependency, unmerge the original library and then try to install a
package which depends upon lib1.

You're assuming that if lib1 needs something from lib2 then there will
be an ELF dependency. This is incorrect in situations where templates
are used.

| I've already busted by ass and fixed the vital broken packages and
| eclasses which INCORRECTLY included linux-headers etc in RDEPEND=

Which is entirely different from things which CORRECTLY include
linux-headers or any other library in DEPEND.

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