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From: "Michael Sterrett -Mr. Bones.-" <msterret@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: implicit vs explicit dependencies
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 20:20:18
Message-Id: Pine.LNX.4.61.0610231615490.21088@rutrow.coat.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] implicit vs explicit dependencies by Simon Stelling
1 Depends on what eclasses the ebuild uses.
2
3 If you inherit autotools and hope that the implicit RDEPEND=DEPEND in the
4 ebuild happens, you'll be disappointed.
5
6 Michael Sterrett
7 -Mr. Bones.-
8 mr_bones_@g.o
9
10 On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Simon Stelling wrote:
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12 > Alin Nastac wrote:
13 >> Up till now, I relied on implicit dependencies (dependencies of my
14 >> dependencies).
15 >> Apparently now (see https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=152534) we
16 >> should add every atom that an ebuild depends on to (R)DEPEND.
17 >> Which is the right way?
18 >
19 > In the bug above we're talking DEPEND, for which this is true: gtk was
20 > installed with a binpkg and those don't pull in their DEPENDs because the
21 > package is already built. For RDEPEND you can savely rely on implicit
22 > dependencies, in most cases at least.
23 >
24 >
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: implicit vs explicit dependencies "Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò" <flameeyes@g.o>