Donnie Berkholz wrote:

- - Packages requiring the headers have to DEPEND on them directly,
because DEPENDs don't cascade. (Although this brings to mind the concept
of some sort of cascadable DEPEND.)

I remember some sort of BDEPEND idea being proposed awhile back, but that was for something different I believe. I wouldn't mind the ability to say that DEPENDing on x at build-time requires y during the build process, especially if more packages follow X's header structure.

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