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From: Joshua Baergen <joshuabaergen@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies.
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2005 17:20:31
Message-Id: 435E6886.5060708@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies. by Ciaran McCreesh
1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3 >RDEPEND lists the things that are needed to use a package once it is
4 >installed.
5 >
6 >
7 Maybe RDEPEND is insufficient to properly describe a library package. I
8 see a big difference between using and compiling against a library. I
9 realize you need to compile against it to use it, but that's certainly
10 not a run-time dependency.
11
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13 Joshua Baergen
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Reminder on dependencies. Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@g.o>