On Mar 27, 2007, at 12:09 PM, Charles Lepple wrote:
> On 3/27/07, Alexander K. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> It's a matter of classification:
>>
>> BuildDepends are buildtime only.
>>
>> Depends are both for runtime and buildtime.
>>
>> It would certainly be an option for a packaging system also to have,
>> say, RuntimeDepends, which are only needed at runtime. Fink just
>> doesn't do that.
>
> Probably worth documenting that difference, though - the 'Depends' in
> dpkg control files is a runtime dependency, and I have a feeling that
> RPM treats it the same way.
Quoting from the packaging manual:
Depends: A list of packages which must be installed before this
package can be built.
BuildDepends: Introduced in fink 0.9.0. A list of dependencies
that is applied at build time only.
Admittedly, these descriptions are not too clear about runtime
dependencies. But they are crystal clear about what happens at build
time.
-- Dave
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