On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 09:53:58AM +0300, Alin Nastac wrote: > Lets say a package foo depends on bar, both at compile time and run time. > Shouldn't DEPEND _and_ RDEPEND of the foo package reflect that > dependency? I usually set DEPEND="$RDEPEND ..." or vice-versa (depending > on which is the most demanding). Am I utterly wrong here?
Unless there's been a change I'm not aware of, that's right. You should often use something similar to COMMON="..." DEPEND="$COMMON ..." RDEPEND="$COMMON ..." when not exactly all of $DEPEND is part of RDEPEND or vice versa though. > I know that when a package is installed the usual way (not from a binary > tarball) dependencies==RDEPEND+DEPEND, but portage functionality could > change in the future. It may not be the wisest decision ever made, but > portage could very well remove whatever dependencies are found in DEPEND > - RDEPEND, once the package is installed. You already mentioned binary packages. In addition to that, I think bad dependencies can break things even under current portage versions by building with ROOT set. Something worth noting is that if RDEPEND is unset, it defaults to $DEPEND, so in some cases, DEPEND="..." can be enough even if there are also runtime dependencies. However, if RDEPEND is set at all, it should be complete (except that system packages of course can be omitted). -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
