On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:25:29 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:32:49 -0400 > Matt Turner <matts...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > Often packages depending on X11 libraries will also have to specify > > the X11 libraries' proto packages in DEPEND. This is because the X11 > > library itself #includes files provided by the proto package. It's > > not really that the X11 library depends on this at run-time, so the > > protocol packages aren't specified in the RDEPEND of the libraries. > > This is a build-against dependency, and it's best expressed either by > its own BADEPEND, or (because it's apparently now possible, and > because otherwise we'd end up with six or seven *DEPEND variables) by > switching to something like DEPENDENCIES with a build-against label. Please do not wreak exheres into Gentoo. The current variable forms are complex enough; there is no reason to put even more logic into the parser. And yes, it's better to have 7 *DEPEND variables than one more magical, conditional thingie in the 'Dependencies' section. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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