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Jason Stubbs wrote: |
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> On Thursday 13 May 2004 12:55, 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. |
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>>>I still don't see a reason for splitting them up. |
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> Three reasons: |
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> a) Binary packages don't require run-time deps to be installed when building. |
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> b) emerging using ${ROOT} only requires the DEPEND atoms to be installed in /. |
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> c) depclean should theoretically be able to remove anything in DEPEND that's |
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> not in RDEPEND or PDEPEND. |
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What is PDEPEND? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in |
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<http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml>. |
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