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On Monday 14 May 2007 15:18:21 Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
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> I've seen perl has some PDEPEND's, which means that these packages |
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> (PodParser and Test-Harness) are emerged right after perl. |
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> Why is that necessary ? |
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> Shouldn't those packages requiring these two simply have them |
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> as DEPEND ? |
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Obviously those packages aren't build time dependencies. So the alternative |
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would be RDEPEND (run-time dependencies). PDEPEND (post dependencies) is |
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chosen to avoid circular dependencies. |
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Bo Andresen |
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