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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 09:28:17 +0000 Donnie Berkholz |
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<spyderous@g.o> wrote: |
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| I'm still failing to see how headers have anything to do with runtime |
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| issues -- it should be people's responsibility to ensure they have |
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| the necessary headers if they're compiling things that require them. |
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| And compiling means DEPEND. |
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Yick. No no no. |
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DEPEND lists the things that are needed to install a package from |
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source (or an upstream-provided binary, or whatever). |
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RDEPEND lists the things that are needed to use a package once it is |
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installed. |
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Part of 'using' a library is compiling things against it. |
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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 |
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