On Sunday 11 January 2004 14:24, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> On Sunday 11 January 2004 06:01, Spider wrote:
> > Separating UDEPEND only to get DEPEND more finegrained isn't a good
> > thing though.  I really don't see the need for an extra thing just to
> > unpack but not to compile.
>
> I agree with Spider here, the only thing that I see as missing in the
> dependency scheme is a good way to specify optional runtime packages.
> (Packages that will be used if present, but that are not needed at compile
> time or installation time)

Not portage's job, imho. If you want the user to know about optional deps, 
just add an einfo in pkg_postinst.

Tal


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