On Friday 30 January 2004 21:38, Jan Schubert wrote: > > So, where should i put runtime deps when installing from source? If i > understood you right, neither RDEPEND nor DEPEND is the right place?
They should be in RDEPEND. There are basically three cases: - Some package is only needed at compile time (e.g. autoconf), this needs to be in DEPEND only - Some package is only usefull at runtime (e.g. java for any binary java package (this is most often done wrong ;-( ). This needs to be in RDEPEND only - Some package is needed at compile time and at runtime (e.g. openssl). This Needs to be in both variables. Basically when installing binary packages only runtime dependencies are taken into account. If they are wrong that will obviously fail. When creating packages without installing them only those packages in DEPEND need to be merged. Further when cleaning all compile-time only dependencies can be removed. Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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