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Brad Cowan wrote: |
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> On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 00:13, Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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>>On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:55:37PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>>Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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>>>>On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:27:48PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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>>>>>I was wondering why there was the separation between the compile-time |
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>>>>>depends (DEPEND) and the run-time depends (RDEPEND). Aren't all of them |
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>>>>>needed in order to run the program? Is there a practical reason for |
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>>>>>splitting them up? |
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>>>>DEPEND is for *building* the package; consider binary packages. |
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>>>Yes, but run-time dependencies can be installed before the package itself. |
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>>>I still don't see a reason for splitting them up. |
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>>Because you don't want to include build-time dependencies when you |
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>>distribute the binary package. |
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> Here's an example if you're not totally clear on what Jon is saying ( |
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> which is 100% correct BTW ). Pkgconfig is needed to build XFce, but not |
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> needed to run it (a DEPEND, not an RDEPEND), so there is no need to |
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> include or install pkgconfig from the GRP set as it would just take up |
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> precious space/bloat on the cd's and the binary user's computer/HD. |
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> This also comes into play with reverse deps and depclean. How would you |
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> be able to track what packages were no longer needed at runtime without |
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> discriminating between the two? This leads to a much cleaner secure |
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> system. |
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That makes a lot more sense. Thanks for the clarification. |
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