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From: Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] implicit vs explicit dependencies
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 19:53:52
Message-Id: 453D1D2C.4010008@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] implicit vs explicit dependencies by Alin Nastac
1 Alin Nastac wrote:
2 > Up till now, I relied on implicit dependencies (dependencies of my
3 > dependencies).
4 > Apparently now (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152534) we
5 > should add every atom that an ebuild depends on to (R)DEPEND.
6 > Which is the right way?
7
8 In the bug above we're talking DEPEND, for which this is true: gtk was
9 installed with a binpkg and those don't pull in their DEPENDs because
10 the package is already built. For RDEPEND you can savely rely on
11 implicit dependencies, in most cases at least.
12
13 --
14 Kind Regards,
15
16 Simon Stelling
17 Gentoo/AMD64 developer
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