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On Friday 30 January 2004 21:38, Jan Schubert wrote: |
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> So, where should i put runtime deps when installing from source? If i |
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> understood you right, neither RDEPEND nor DEPEND is the right place? |
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They should be in RDEPEND. There are basically three cases: |
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- Some package is only needed at compile time (e.g. autoconf), this needs to |
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be in DEPEND only |
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- Some package is only usefull at runtime (e.g. java for any binary java |
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package (this is most often done wrong ;-( ). This needs to be in RDEPEND |
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only |
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- Some package is needed at compile time and at runtime (e.g. openssl). This |
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Needs to be in both variables. |
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Basically when installing binary packages only runtime dependencies are taken |
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into account. If they are wrong that will obviously fail. When creating |
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packages without installing them only those packages in DEPEND need to be |
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merged. Further when cleaning all compile-time only dependencies can be |
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removed. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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