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 1EUSTO-0002DU-P2 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:20:31 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id j9PHJlEc027349; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:19:47 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 j9PHI4oB020538 for ; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:18:04 GMT Received: from etlcpublic23.ece.ualberta.ca ([129.128.223.23]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1EUSR1-0004xx-Rb for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:18:03 +0000 Message-ID: <435E6886.5060708@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:16:54 -0600 From: Joshua Baergen User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051014) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en 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 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies. 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> In-Reply-To: <20051025174146.7af88898@snowdrop.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 13b773ce-66d6-484b-93bf-7cb1ed41c329 X-Archives-Hash: dcbeb8f19ca52b0e4a7f90034c6a52db 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. -- Joshua Baergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list