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From: Jan Schubert <Jan.Schubert@×××.li>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPEND vs. RDEPEND refresher
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 00:53:18
Message-Id: 401AF56A.8020604@GMX.li
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPEND vs. RDEPEND refresher by Jon Portnoy
1 Jon Portnoy wrote:
2
3 >Why would you think that?
4 >
5 Because you wrote:
6
7 > When working with ebuilds, please keep in mind that RDEPEND should
8 > contain everything that needs to merge when installing from a tbz2
9 > binary package, but that's all -- anything else is cruft.
10
11 Which makes me wondering if RDEPEND is for binary installs only.
12
13 > Runtime deps are always runtime deps. RDEPEND
14 >is the right place.
15 >
16 >
17 Sure,no question about it. I just misunderstood your above statement and
18 wanted to make sure....
19
20 Thx,
21 Jan
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