Marius Mauch schrieb: > On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 14:09:49 +0100 > Thomas Sachau <to...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> as specified in the PMS spec [1] and stated in #gentoo-portage, >> RDEPEND will be set to DEPEND, if it is not defined in the ebuild >> itself. But devmanual [2] and developer handbook [3] both state, you >> have do explicitly set RDEPEND because it may be removed in the >> future. Since package manager have to follow the PMS spec, i would >> suggest to change those docs [2][3] and let them follow the PMS spec. >> >> Any problems, suggestions or anything else about this? > > It's strongly recommended to set both explicitly as the behavior could > change in future EAPI versions, and to ensure that you actually think > about which deps are build deps and which are runtime deps. > Also there is nothing wrong with policies being stricter than the > underlying spec. > > Marius > >
If i want to use some future EAPI (give me some reasons, why this should be changed there by default), i should think about it. But most ebuilds will stay with the default. I do think about runtime deps and build deps. In my eyes, this is similar to src_unpack and src_compile. They have defaults, noone specifies the defaults, even if they are changed in some EAPI. -- Thomas Sachau Gentoo Linux Developer
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