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On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 22:34:21 +0300 Alin Nastac <mrness@g.o> |
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| Up till now, I relied on implicit dependencies (dependencies of my |
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| dependencies). |
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| Apparently now (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152534) we |
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| should add every atom that an ebuild depends on to (R)DEPEND. |
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| Which is the right way? |
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You can rely upon things in the RDEPEND chain and things in system being |
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there. You can't rely upon things merely in a DEPEND chain. |
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If you do rely upon RDEPEND chain items, you should be aware that if a |
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new version of a package comes out and removes one of the items, stuff |
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breaks. It's generally not a good idea to get toooooo over-reliant upon |
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nth level deps because of this (but equally, don't go over the top). |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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Mail : ciaranm at ciaranm.org |
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Web : http://ciaranm.org/ |
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