Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND

[Ferris McCormick]

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On Fri, 14 May 2004, Spider wrote:

> begin  quote
> On Thu, 13 May 2004 10:52:35 +0000 (UTC)
> Ferris McCormick <fmccor@g.o> wrote:
>
>
> > Consider build package P on system A to run on system B.  P requires
> > tcltk  to build but not to run; tetex to run but not to build.  (OK, I
> > can't imagine such a package, but I suppose I could construct one.)
> >
>
> Imake to build, not to run.
>
> tetex is required by loads of things to build (documentation
> generation!)
>
> perl is used by most build systems, but very few runtime ones.
>
> can you name a single desktop application that can build without make,
> but that needs make to run?
>
I meant that my specific example (which uses tcl in the build process and 
then runs using TeX) seemed to be improbable.  Actually, I can imagine 
such a thing (too strong there) -- I've probably done it (but not in
the ebuild context).  All I was trying to say was that although I doubt
there is such a specific package, I might be able to put together an 
argument for one.

I certainly didn't mean to suggest that the case didn't arise.  My point
was that tcl & TeX are not very related, and you certainly could need one
on a system to build an application which would need the other on its 
target system.

I was trying to make an example where the distinction would be obvious
because the DEPEND (tcltk) and RDEPEND (tetex) were glaringly distinct,
and neither necessarily present (were it not for the example ebuild) on
a running system.

But evidently I was not very clear on what I was trying to say.  Sorry
for any confusion.


>
> //Spider
Regards,
Ferris
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
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