Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

[Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@gentoo.org>]

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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:37:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz
| <spyderous@gentoo.org> wrote:
| | Now, the other side of the story. It's not true runtime dependence
| | because it's not required for programs to run, only to compile. And
| | the way I see it, things required for programs to compile are by
| | definition DEPEND rather than RDEPEND.
|
| Not at all. If you've installed libfoo, one of the things you must be
| able to do is compile things that use libfoo. This sometimes means that
| libfoo would need a non-build-time dependency upon any libraries used
| by libfoo's header files.

I disagree. You shouldn't expect to be able to compile things against it
unless all DEPENDs are installed. The whole point of DEPEND is to be
able to do things like this; remove all things not necessary for your
programs to run, not to compile.

Thanks,
Donnie
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