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On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:41:19 -0500 Ned Ludd <solar@g.o> wrote: |
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| On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 21:00 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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| > How will that work for packages that have a runtime dependency upon |
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| > a text file supplied by a different package? |
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| text files which are true runtime deps belong in RDEPEND. |
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Ok. So embedded tools which rely upon RRDEPEND for runtime dependencies |
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will end up producing incomplete installs? |
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| Clearly c++ templates are beyond the scope of the what RRDEPEND can |
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| provide. I could be wrong but I don't think those c++ templates are |
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| anything revdep-rebuild or verify-rdepends handle any differently. |
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That one's a separate issue, since you don't need C++ template header |
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files installed if you don't ever intend to compile anything on the |
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system in question. I was thinking more along the lines of (non-minimal) |
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vim needing vim-core here. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Supreme Lord Gerbil Wrangler) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm |
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