%% Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> writes:

  js> In ebuilds you'll find DEPEND, RDEPEND and PDEPEND. DEPEND is
  js> build time dependencies and must always be satisfied by packages
  js> installed on the "/" file system. RDEPEND on the other hand is
  js> run-time dependencies and must be satisfied on the root
  js> filesystem. PDEPEND is a special form of RDEPEND.

Hm.  I see the distinction you're trying to make here.  Is this in any
way related to the setting of ROOT, or is it orthogonal?

Are these supersets of each other or can they be disjoint?  In other
words, if I have a library package contains header files, which are
build time dependencies, and shared libraries, which are both build and
runtime dependencies, should I declare both DEPEND and RDEPEND?

In the above example that package is a DEPEND... but it will be
installed under ROOT, not under /.

Maybe I'm conflating two unrelated features.

  js> I must have missed that one too, but I can't seem to find anything
  js> from you in my archives...

My outbox has:

> From psmith Thu Feb 12 13:00:58 -0500 2004
> Message-ID: <16427.48986.501829.428875@...>
> Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2004 13:00:58 -0500
> To: gentoo-portage-dev@g.o
> Subject: Portage choosing wrong version?

for example.

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