El sáb, 17-01-2009 a las 16:41 +0100, Thomas Sachau escribió: > 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. >
You may want to change the wording in docs to make it say it's encouraged to set both but it's not technically needed. Note that PMS is *not* a good practice guidelenes. There are a bunch of things that are technically valid but wrong from a QA point of view. Regards, -- Santiago Moisés Mola Jabber: cooldw...@gmail.com | GPG: AAD203B5
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