Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND

[Joel Martin]

That's a good idea, but it shouldn't be the default mode. Or at least,
there should be a way to turn it off. I don't think most people will
want to un-install there DEPEND files, because most people would
sacrifice a little disk space in order to speed re-install time later.
I would only use this in rare cases like firewall creation, etc.

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Jason Stubbs wrote:	[Thu May 13 2004, 01:13:27AM EDT]
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> On Thursday 13 May 2004 13:13, Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:55:37PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > > Jon Portnoy wrote:
> > > >On Wed, May 12, 2004 at 10:27:48PM -0500, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> > > >>I was wondering why there was the separation between the compile-time
> > > >>depends (DEPEND) and the run-time depends (RDEPEND). Aren't all of them
> > > >>needed in order to run the program? Is there a practical reason for
> > > >>splitting them up?
> > > >
> > > >DEPEND is for *building* the package; consider binary packages.
> > >
> > > Yes, but run-time dependencies can be installed before the package
> > > itself. I still don't see a reason for splitting them up.
> >
> > Because you don't want to include build-time dependencies when you
> > distribute the binary package.
>
> If that's the case (and a quick look at the code tells me it is), are there
> any objections to depclean removing packages that only exist in DEPEND?
>
> Regards,
> Jason Stubbs
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