Donnie Berkholz wrote: [Tue Oct 25 2005, 04:28:17AM CDT] > I'm still failing to see how headers have anything to do with runtime > issues -- it should be people's responsibility to ensure they have the > necessary headers if they're compiling things that require them. And > compiling means DEPEND.
It's possible that I'm being particularly dense today, but at least at the moment it seems fairly simple to me. DEPEND means that portage requires the dep for the current package to build successfully. RDEPEND, on the other hand, lists dependencies that users of a package will need down the road, after it's installed on the system. So, for example, libfoo might not require that boost be installed for it to build, but libfoo might export a header file that imports boost/tuple.hpp. If boost isn't in libfoo's RDEPEND, then when user Fred installs libfoo from a binary package and tries to use libfoo's header files in development, a rude shock is likely. > Maybe for some people compiling is included in runtime, but I'm not one > of them. I am. I frequently compile software against installed libraries in my day job. I don't run into this problem solely because I don't install binary packages. My apologies if I'm missing the point here. -g2boojum- -- Grant Goodyear Gentoo Developer [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum GPG Fingerprint: D706 9802 1663 DEF5 81B0 9573 A6DC 7152 E0F6 5B76
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