On Tue, 2005-10-25 at 17:39 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2005 07:09:03 -0700 Donnie Berkholz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | I disagree. You shouldn't expect to be able to compile things against > | it unless all DEPENDs are installed. The whole point of DEPEND is to > | be able to do things like this; remove all things not necessary for > | your programs to run, not to compile. > > I'm glad to see you're volunteering to join in with Ned in going > through every single ebuild in the tree and fixing them up to list nth > level dependencies. It's going to be really fun watching you update > several hundred packages every time a library's compile dependencies > change between versions.
Please do not put words in my mouth. I've already asserted to you several times that the definition of RDEPEND= is unclear and that we do infact need a new set of depend atoms. R=(runtime) not Buildtime for the NNth time. Till then please focus your efforts on something useful that does not break other peoples systems or projects. > See, if libfoo-1.0's headers don't need (say) boost, but libfoo-1.1's > headers do, with what you're proposing you'd have to go through and > update the dependencies of every single package using libfoo. -- solar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Gentoo Linux -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list
