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From: "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: implicit vs explicit dependencies
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:58:46
Message-Id: 200610232251.32610@enterprise.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: implicit vs explicit dependencies by "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-"
1 On Monday 23 October 2006 22:16, Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.- wrote:
2 > If you inherit autotools and hope that the implicit RDEPEND=DEPEND in the
3 > ebuild happens, you'll be disappointed.
4 I doubt this is what Alin and Simon meant ;)
5
6 It's more likely gtk+ depends on pkg-config (build-time) and libX11
7 (runtime).. package using gtk+ shouldn't depend on X11 (because it's an
8 implicit dependency as it depends on gtk+) but should depend on pkg-config,
9 because although being a dependency of gtk+, it is not required at runtime.
10
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