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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@×××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2006 13:10:52
Message-Id: 20060617125745.30d5c544@snowdrop.home
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc by Peper
1 On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 11:26:12 +0200 Peper <peper@×××××.pl> wrote:
2 | > Setting RDEPEND to "" indicates that the stuff in DEPEND isn't
3 | > needed to run the package, and can safely be pruned later. If
4 | > RDEPEND is not set, it is defaulted to $DEPEND by portage.
5 |
6 | If you inherit some eclass with deps, not set RDEPEND won't be
7 | defaulted to DEPEND from ebuild, but will also include deps from
8 | eclass, which is incorrect b/c these deps are needed for build time
9 | only(like sed, autotools...). One needs to make sure that RDEPEND is
10 | correct if not set manually in ebuild with eclasses.
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12 Incorrect.
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