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On 12/28/2009 10:51 PM, David Leverton wrote: |
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> On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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>> What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build |
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>> dependencies? Just wondering. |
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> They're not just build dependencies. They're required to use the library in a |
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> certain way, namely to compile other programs against it. As long as we |
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> don't have compile-against dependencies, the only correct way to express that |
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> is RDEPEND (and also DEPEND because they're /also/ needed to build the |
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> library itself). |
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That's what I've been trying to say (also with my example). |
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That is, they are more than DEPENDs. |
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Thanks, |
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Samuli |
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