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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 11:16:54 -0600 Joshua Baergen |
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<joshuabaergen@g.o> wrote: |
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| Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| >RDEPEND lists the things that are needed to use a package once it is |
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| >installed. |
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| Maybe RDEPEND is insufficient to properly describe a library |
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| package. I see a big difference between using and compiling against |
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| a library. I realize you need to compile against it to use it, but |
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| that's certainly not a run-time dependency. |
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Well yes, we already know we need a few dozen more new dependency |
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atoms. But we're dealing with "what we can use currently" here, not |
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some hypothetical future situation. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Shell tools, Fluxbox, Cron) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |