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.
-- Joshua Baergen -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list