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On Wed, 12 May 2004, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> Jon Portnoy wrote: |
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> > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:27:48PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote: |
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> >>I was wondering why there was the separation between the compile-time |
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> >>depends (DEPEND) and the run-time depends (RDEPEND). Aren't all of them |
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> >>needed in order to run the program? Is there a practical reason for |
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> >>splitting them up? |
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> > DEPEND is for *building* the package; consider binary packages. |
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> Yes, but run-time dependencies can be installed before the package itself. I |
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> still don't see a reason for splitting them up. |
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Consider build package P on system A to run on system B. P requires tcltk |
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to build but not to run; tetex to run but not to build. (OK, I can't |
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imagine such a package, but I suppose I could construct one.) |
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Regards, |
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Ferris |
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> Andrew Gaffney |
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