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From: Andrew Gaffney <agaffney@×××××××××××.com>
To: Gentoo Dev <gentoo-dev@l.g.o>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 03:32:28
Message-Id: 40A2EB34.7090404@skylineaero.com
1 I was wondering why there was the separation between the compile-time depends
2 (DEPEND) and the run-time depends (RDEPEND). Aren't all of them needed in order
3 to run the program? Is there a practical reason for splitting them up?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND Jon Portnoy <avenj@g.o>