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From: Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:32:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B3923E3.2000103@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200912282051.05586.levertond@googlemail.com>

On 12/28/2009 10:51 PM, David Leverton wrote:
> On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote:
>> What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build
>> dependencies? Just wondering.
> 
> They're not just build dependencies.  They're required to use the library in a 
> certain way, namely to compile other programs against it.  As long as we 
> don't have compile-against dependencies, the only correct way to express that 
> is RDEPEND (and also DEPEND because they're /also/ needed to build the 
> library itself).
> 

That's what I've been trying to say (also with my example).
That is, they are more than DEPENDs.

Thanks,

Samuli



  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-12-28 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-28  9:10 [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug lxnay
2009-12-28 16:40 ` Doug Goldstein
2009-12-28 23:40   ` Ben de Groot
2009-12-28 18:52 ` Petteri Räty
2009-12-28 19:14   ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 19:15 ` Jeroen Roovers
2009-12-28 19:23   ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-29  5:45   ` Doug Goldstein
2009-12-29 16:08     ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-12-28 19:24 ` Samuli Suominen
2009-12-28 19:29   ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 19:36   ` Nirbheek Chauhan
2009-12-28 20:06 ` Rémi Cardona
2009-12-28 20:50   ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 20:51     ` David Leverton
2009-12-28 21:04       ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 21:25         ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 22:07         ` David Leverton
2009-12-28 22:31         ` Rémi Cardona
2009-12-28 22:53           ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 23:26             ` Rémi Cardona
2009-12-29 13:43           ` Henry Gebhardt
2009-12-29 20:57             ` Rémi Cardona
2009-12-28 21:32       ` Samuli Suominen [this message]
2009-12-28 21:47         ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 21:48           ` Gokdeniz Karadag
2009-12-28 22:02             ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 21:54           ` Samuli Suominen
2009-12-28 21:54           ` Fabio Erculiani
2009-12-28 21:51             ` Ciaran McCreesh

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