On 12/28/2009 10:51 PM, David Leverton 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). >
That's what I've been trying to say (also with my example). That is, they are more than DEPENDs. Thanks, Samuli
