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