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On Thursday 13 May 2004 12:55, 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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> > DEPEND is for *building* the package; consider binary packages. |
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> Yes, but run-time dependencies can be installed before the package itself. |
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> I still don't see a reason for splitting them up. |
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Three reasons: |
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a) Binary packages don't require run-time deps to be installed when building. |
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b) emerging using ${ROOT} only requires the DEPEND atoms to be installed in /. |
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c) depclean should theoretically be able to remove anything in DEPEND that's |
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not in RDEPEND or PDEPEND. |
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Regards, |
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Jason Stubbs |
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