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From: Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:04:29
Message-Id: 430880c50912281304k2638b1dcn7f53e693dc9942c8@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug by David Leverton
1 On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, David Leverton
2 <levertond@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3 > On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote:
4 >> What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build
5 >> dependencies? Just wondering.
6 >
7 > They're not just build dependencies.  They're required to use the library in a
8 > certain way, namely to compile other programs against it.  As long as we
9 > don't have compile-against dependencies, the only correct way to express that
10 > is RDEPEND (and also DEPEND because they're /also/ needed to build the
11 > library itself).
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13 To me you are saying that DEPEND would work just fine. No?
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21 Fabio Erculiani
22 http://www.sabayon.org
23 http://www.gentoo.org

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug Fabio Erculiani <lxnay@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug "Rémi Cardona" <remi@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] x11-libs/lib*: wrong RDEPENDs bug David Leverton <levertond@××××××××××.com>