On Tuesday 25 October 2005 08:01, Spider (D.m.D. Lj.) wrote: > > actually, I'm not in agreement here. If I install libfoo, be it from > binaries or source, I certainly expect to be able to use libfoo, and > that includes being able to build software against it, things I work > on myself, other sources, or sources from Gentoo. > > We can hack around the later by being fanatical with our own DEPEND > tracking, for the other two, our tree will remain completely broken. > > This is a case where we, a source based distro, is actually a crappier > development platform than any of the current binary distributions.
I agree with Spider here. DEPEND in package x to me means what is needed to make x build. RDEPEND in package x means what is needed to use package x. There are various uses of x. One is running said package, another one is building some other package (say y) against it. This last meaning (building y against x) might have been put in a separate dependency variable. This however is not so usefull as we have the current format. But putting that meaning in DEPEND would mean that portage would certainly need to merge all build time dependencies of a package x to merge y. As such packages like virtual/jdk, autoconf, automake might be unneededly pulled in. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Researcher Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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