On Thursday, October 10, 2002, at 07:22  PM, Max Horn wrote:

> I'd like to add some new fields in the near future:
>
> "RuntimeDepends"
>
> Comments? Problems with those? Other similiar fields that might be 
> needed in your opinion?
>

Wouldn't this objective be achieved without a new field, but instead 
using BuildDepends: for *all* the buildtime dependencies and Depends 
for just the runtime dependencies.

i.e. A package currently having:
Depends: foo-shlibs, bar
BuildDepends: foo, foo-bin, bar-dev

Would instead become:
Depends: foo-shlibs, bar
BuildDepends: foo-shlibs, foo, foo-bin, bar, bar-dev

Then the package manager could be changed to not add the Depends: field 
to the builddepends one at build time.

But, perhaps a new field is needed, rather than having to rewrite all 
the info files in one go.. I vote for the option that means less work 
for me :-)

Peter




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