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| From: | "Kevin F. Quinn" <kevquinn@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-dev@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc | ||
| Date: | Sat, 17 Jun 2006 09:15:29 | ||
| Message-Id: | 20060617111501.164357bc@c1358217.kevquinn.com | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc by Thomas Cort |
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| 1 | On Sat, 17 Jun 2006 00:35:30 -0400 |
| 2 | Thomas Cort <tcort@g.o> wrote: |
| 3 | |
| 4 | > What is the purpose of setting DEPEND and RDEPEND to "" if DEPEND and |
| 5 | > RDEPEND are optional[1][2]? Isn't that just a waste of disk space / |
| 6 | > bandwidth? DEPEND="virtual/libc" seems like a waste too as it is an |
| 7 | > implicit system dependency[3], any reason for using it? |
| 8 | > |
| 9 | > DEPEND="" # used by 1479 ebuilds |
| 10 | > RDEPEND="" # used by 884 ebuilds |
| 11 | > DEPEND="virtual/libc" # used by 809 ebuilds |
| 12 | |
| 13 | Setting RDEPEND to "" indicates that the stuff in DEPEND isn't needed |
| 14 | to run the package, and can safely be pruned later. If RDEPEND is not |
| 15 | set, it is defaulted to $DEPEND by portage. |
| 16 | |
| 17 | -- |
| 18 | Kevin F. Quinn |
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| Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc | Peper <peper@×××××.pl> |
| Re: [gentoo-dev] variable quoting, setting optional variables to "", and depending on virtual/libc | Michael Cummings <mcummings@g.o> |