From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NPNAE-0003tK-Cm for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:30:06 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 54F40E069C; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25A59E069C for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:29:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [87.93.109.232] (h109232.gprs.dnafinland.fi [87.93.109.232]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B78166805 for ; Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:29:45 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <4B3923E3.2000103@gentoo.org> Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 23:32:19 +0200 From: Samuli Suominen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.5) Gecko/20091227 Thunderbird/3.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug References: <200912282051.05586.levertond@googlemail.com> In-Reply-To: <200912282051.05586.levertond@googlemail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 654b6a69-e6ad-4d17-835e-14157e49c5e9 X-Archives-Hash: 5497b670d398478290d1bede279afcd9 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