-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:37:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz | <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | | Now, the other side of the story. It's not true runtime dependence | | because it's not required for programs to run, only to compile. And | | the way I see it, things required for programs to compile are by | | definition DEPEND rather than RDEPEND. | | Not at all. If you've installed libfoo, one of the things you must be | able to do is compile things that use libfoo. This sometimes means that | libfoo would need a non-build-time dependency upon any libraries used | by libfoo's header files.
I disagree. You shouldn't expect to be able to compile things against it unless all DEPENDs are installed. The whole point of DEPEND is to be able to do things like this; remove all things not necessary for your programs to run, not to compile. Thanks, Donnie -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDXjx/XVaO67S1rtsRAhSCAKCx+hz350OYMt0DHbH2IioPzMxjiwCcCSMF yHlfBgfSVWIKJ5HVi9pOMz4= =WHBM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
