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Alin Nastac wrote: |
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> Lets say a package foo depends on bar, both at compile time and run time. |
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> Shouldn't DEPEND _and_ RDEPEND of the foo package reflect that |
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> dependency? I usually set DEPEND="$RDEPEND ..." or vice-versa (depending |
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> on which is the most demanding). Am I utterly wrong here? |
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> I know that when a package is installed the usual way (not from a binary |
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> tarball) dependencies==RDEPEND+DEPEND, but portage functionality could |
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> change in the future. It may not be the wisest decision ever made, but |
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> portage could very well remove whatever dependencies are found in DEPEND |
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> - RDEPEND, once the package is installed. |
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It needs to be in both. For example if you only set it in DEPEND, |
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merging to ROOT!=/ would break as the dep would get installed in / and |
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not ROOT, so the app would fail to run. |
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-Antarus |
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