Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.

[Luca Barbato <lu_zero@gentoo.org>]

Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> 
> I agree here. If you don't want packages to be pulled in because of header 
> files, you need support for that (perhaps in the form of subpackages, or 
> a useflag). But IF the header files of a package are installed one should 
> be able to assume that they keep on working. Even after buildtime-only 
> dependencies have been removed.

I agree too

> 
> In the case of embedded it is clear that what in binary distributions is 
> part of the development package (.la files, static libraries, header 
> files) is not desired at all. To break dependencies to only strip away 
> some of the headers seems to me a half solution that breaks a lot and 
> doesn't solve the problem either.
> 
> Paul
> 

Btw embedded has already different way to archive the same result (ok, 
removing headers and static libs after isn't really the cleanest 
solution but works fine)

lu

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Luca Barbato

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