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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
Subject: Re: x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:04:01 +0100
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, David Leverton
<levertond@...> wrote:
> On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote:
>> What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build
>> dependencies? Just wondering.
>
> They're not just build dependencies.  They're required to use the library in a
> certain way, namely to compile other programs against it.  As long as we
> don't have compile-against dependencies, the only correct way to express that
> is RDEPEND (and also DEPEND because they're /also/ needed to build the
> library itself).

To me you are saying that DEPEND would work just fine. No?

>
>



-- 
Fabio Erculiani
http://www.sabayon.org
http://www.gentoo.org


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