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On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 21:37:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz |
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<spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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| Now, the other side of the story. It's not true runtime dependence |
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| because it's not required for programs to run, only to compile. And |
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| the way I see it, things required for programs to compile are by |
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| definition DEPEND rather than RDEPEND. |
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Not at all. If you've installed libfoo, one of the things you must be |
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able to do is compile things that use libfoo. This sometimes means that |
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libfoo would need a non-build-time dependency upon any libraries used |
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by libfoo's header files. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |