Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Marius Mauch <genone@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPEND vs. RDEPEND refresher
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 20:56:52
Message-Id: 20040130213806.6fb66d66@sven.genone.homeip.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] DEPEND vs. RDEPEND refresher by Drake Wyrm
1 On 01/30/04 Drake Wyrm wrote:
2
3 > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:56:21AM -0500, in
4 > <20040130165621.GA12724@××××××××××××××××××.us>, Jon Portnoy
5 > <avenj@g.o> wrote:
6 > > A lot of ebuilds are turning up with screwy DEPEND vs. RDEPEND
7 > > settings. When working with ebuilds, please keep in mind that
8 > > RDEPEND should contain everything that needs to merge when
9 > > installing from a tbz2 binary package, but that's all -- anything
10 > > else is cruft. DEPEND should contain everything needed to build and
11 > > install the package.
12 >
13 > I've had a question about that; this seems a good time to ask. Should
14 > DEPEND include the run-time DEPs or *only* compile-time DEPs?
15
16 There is no need for DEPEND to have runtime dependencies, but only
17 remove them if you're sure they are runtime-only dependencies.
18
19 Marius
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