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On Tuesday 23 March 2004 22:28, Paul Smith wrote: |
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> %% Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@g.o> writes: |
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> js> In ebuilds you'll find DEPEND, RDEPEND and PDEPEND. DEPEND is |
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> js> build time dependencies and must always be satisfied by packages |
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> js> installed on the "/" file system. RDEPEND on the other hand is |
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> js> run-time dependencies and must be satisfied on the root |
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> js> filesystem. PDEPEND is a special form of RDEPEND. |
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> Hm. I see the distinction you're trying to make here. Is this in any |
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> way related to the setting of ROOT, or is it orthogonal? |
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> Are these supersets of each other or can they be disjoint? In other |
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> words, if I have a library package contains header files, which are |
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> build time dependencies, and shared libraries, which are both build and |
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> runtime dependencies, should I declare both DEPEND and RDEPEND? |
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Yes. |
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> In the above example that package is a DEPEND... but it will be |
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> installed under ROOT, not under /. |
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If it is not in RDEPEND (which most compiletime dependencies are with the |
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exception of things like autoconf/automake etc.) that is a bug and should be |
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filed. |
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Paul |
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Paul de Vrieze |
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Gentoo Developer |
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Mail: pauldv@g.o |
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Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net |
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