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Donnie Berkholz wrote: [Tue Oct 25 2005, 04:28:17AM CDT] |
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> I'm still failing to see how headers have anything to do with runtime |
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> issues -- it should be people's responsibility to ensure they have the |
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> necessary headers if they're compiling things that require them. And |
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> compiling means DEPEND. |
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It's possible that I'm being particularly dense today, but at least at |
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the moment it seems fairly simple to me. DEPEND means that portage |
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requires the dep for the current package to build successfully. |
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RDEPEND, on the other hand, lists dependencies that users of a package |
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will need down the road, after it's installed on the system. So, for |
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example, libfoo might not require that boost be installed for it to |
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build, but libfoo might export a header file that imports |
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boost/tuple.hpp. If boost isn't in libfoo's RDEPEND, then when user |
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Fred installs libfoo from a binary package and tries to use libfoo's |
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header files in development, a rude shock is likely. |
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> Maybe for some people compiling is included in runtime, but I'm not one |
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> of them. |
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I am. I frequently compile software against installed libraries in my |
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day job. I don't run into this problem solely because I don't install |
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binary packages. |
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My apologies if I'm missing the point here. |
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-g2boojum- |
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Grant Goodyear |
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Gentoo Developer |
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g2boojum@g.o |
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http://www.gentoo.org/~g2boojum |
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