From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCA3A138010 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:04:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63DB521C0BA for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:04:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8ED57E058F for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2012 22:25:54 -0000 Received: from 77-22-12-19-dynip.superkabel.de (EHLO ernie.fritz.box) [77.22.12.19] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 24 Sep 2012 00:25:54 +0200 X-Authenticated: #19202771 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19gtVZ6eSxgOV+Wf3FxQc0CzA/2GKuJFG/08pREBN H4vqN5oLc2fHbi From: Dennis Schridde To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Dennis Schridde Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 4/5] Improve wording of *DEPEND variable description in ebuild(5) a bit Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:25:39 +0200 Message-Id: <1348439140-28207-5-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12 In-Reply-To: <1348439140-28207-1-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net> References: <1348439140-28207-1-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: d10e3af4-3b53-450b-a428-60b768b778ab X-Archives-Hash: 72e834f7d5a21806ba0227ba22d1e65d --- man/ebuild.5 | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index 3f28fce..5bb1afa 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -543,27 +543,32 @@ repo\-level USE settings, since profile and user configuration settings override them. .TP .B DEPEND -This should contain a list of all packages that are required for the -program to compile as described in \fBDependencies\fR. +This should contain a list of all packages that are required for the program +to compile (aka \fIbuildtime\fR dependencies). These are usually libraries and +headers. + +You may use the syntax described above in the \fBDependencies\fR section. .TP .B RDEPEND This should contain a list of all packages that are required for this -program to run (aka runtime depend). If this is not set in \fBEAPI 3\fR -or earlier, then it defaults to the value of \fBDEPEND\fR. In -\fBEAPI 4\fR or later, \fBRDEPEND\fR will never be implicitly set. +program to run (aka \fIruntime\fR dependencies). These are usually libraries. + +In \fBEAPI 3\fR or earlier, if this is not set, then it defaults to the value +of \fBDEPEND\fR. In \fBEAPI 4\fR or later, \fBRDEPEND\fR will never be +implicitly set. -You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR. +You may use the syntax described above in the \fBDependencies\fR section. .TP .B PDEPEND This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this -one, but which may be installed by the package manager at any time, if that is -not possible. +one (aka \fIpost\fR merge dependencies), but which may be installed by the +package manager at any time, if that is not possible. .B ***WARNING*** .br Use this only as last resort to break cyclic dependencies! -You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR. +You may use the syntax described above in the \fBDependencies\fR section. .TP .B REQUIRED_USE Beginning with \fBEAPI 4\fR, the \fBREQUIRED_USE\fR variable can be -- 1.7.12