Re: [gentoo-dev] autotools.eclass and binary packages

[Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>]

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Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Saturday 05 August 2006 15:32, Zac Medico wrote:
>> The actual fault is in libpng-1.2.12-r1.ebuild where RDEPEND="" should be
>> explicitly set.
> 
> the actual fault is portage
> 
> instead of half-assing all this DEPEND/RDEPEND garbage, why not fix portage to 
> do it consistently
> 
> either it implicitly sets RDEPEND *correctly* or it doesnt do it at all
> -mike

I'm not satisfied with the current implicit RDEPEND behavior either.  I propose that we make repoman force explicit definition of RDEPEND.  After all of the ebuilds have been fixed to stop relying on the implicit definition, we can fix portage so that it no longer sets RDEPEND implicitly at all.

Zac
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