On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 9:51 PM, David Leverton <levert...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Monday 28 December 2009 20:50:17 Fabio Erculiani wrote: >> What all this has to do with the fact that they are just build >> dependencies? Just wondering. > > They're not just build dependencies. They're required to use the library in a > certain way, namely to compile other programs against it. As long as we > don't have compile-against dependencies, the only correct way to express that > is RDEPEND (and also DEPEND because they're /also/ needed to build the > library itself).
To me you are saying that DEPEND would work just fine. No? > > -- Fabio Erculiani http://www.sabayon.org http://www.gentoo.org
