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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:43:37
Message-Id: 20120907214019.48bf7784@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Unified DEPENDENCIES concept by Ian Stakenvicius
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4 On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:28:40 -0400
5 Ian Stakenvicius <axs@g.o> wrote:
6 > >> - - the new DEPEND now will be used for things that are
7 > >> *currently* in RDEPEND and DEPEND (so that things will work) but
8 > >> are not actually run-time dependencies. Said atoms will then be
9 > >> removed from RDEPEND (and not be included in the new HDEPEND
10 > >> either) as they aren't really supposed to be there in the first
11 > >> place.
12 > >
13 > > I'm not entirely sure that there are more than a handful of very
14 > > special cases that would be covered by the second point. Can
15 > > anyone provide examples?
16 >
17 > Bug 263343 , the 'fontconfig' dep for some package i wasn't able to
18 > find easily
19
20 Do we have an explanation as to *why* fontconfig has to be on ROOT
21 here? Is it because $ROOT/var/cache/fontconfig needs to exist at build
22 time, but not at runtime? If so, is this better fixed by using a
23 temporary directory?
24
25 > Bug 317337 (original HDEPEND proposal) mentions the
26 > x11-proto/xcb-proto dep for libxcb (and i assume anything else
27 > depending on xcb-proto)
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29 That's a BADEPEND.
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31 - --
32 Ciaran McCreesh
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