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On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:25:29 +0100 |
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Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:32:49 -0400 |
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> Matt Turner <mattst88@g.o> wrote: |
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> > Often packages depending on X11 libraries will also have to specify |
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> > the X11 libraries' proto packages in DEPEND. This is because the X11 |
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> > library itself #includes files provided by the proto package. It's |
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> > not really that the X11 library depends on this at run-time, so the |
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> > protocol packages aren't specified in the RDEPEND of the libraries. |
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> This is a build-against dependency, and it's best expressed either by |
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> its own BADEPEND, or (because it's apparently now possible, and |
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> because otherwise we'd end up with six or seven *DEPEND variables) by |
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> switching to something like DEPENDENCIES with a build-against label. |
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Please do not wreak exheres into Gentoo. The current variable forms are |
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complex enough; there is no reason to put even more logic into |
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the parser. And yes, it's better to have 7 *DEPEND variables than one |
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more magical, conditional thingie in the 'Dependencies' section. |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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