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On Monday 28 December 2009 21:04:01 Fabio Erculiani wrote: |
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> To me you are saying that DEPEND would work just fine. No? |
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Setting the proto as DEPEND for the library wouldn't work because a user could |
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install the library, remove every DEPEND-only package and legitimately expect |
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the library to continue working, including being able to build other programs |
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against it. Putting the proto in DEPEND for every package that uses the |
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library isn't good because (unless the package references the proto directly) |
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the fact that the proto is needed is an internal detail of the library, that |
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might even change between versions, and packages using the library shouldn't |
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have to know about it. |
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