On 01/30/04  Drake Wyrm wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:56:21AM -0500, in
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Portnoy
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > A lot of ebuilds are turning up with screwy DEPEND vs. RDEPEND
> > settings. When working with ebuilds, please keep in mind that
> > RDEPEND should contain everything that needs to merge when
> > installing from a tbz2 binary package, but that's all -- anything
> > else is cruft. DEPEND should contain everything needed to build and
> > install the package. 
> 
> I've had a question about that; this seems a good time to ask. Should
> DEPEND include the run-time DEPs or *only* compile-time DEPs?

There is no need for DEPEND to have runtime dependencies, but only
remove them if you're sure they are runtime-only dependencies.

Marius

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