On Fri, 25 Nov 2005 16:41:19 -0500 Ned Ludd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
| On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 21:00 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
| > How will that work for packages that have a runtime dependency upon
| > a text file supplied by a different package?
| 
| text files which are true runtime deps belong in RDEPEND.

Ok. So embedded tools which rely upon RRDEPEND for runtime dependencies
will end up producing incomplete installs?

| Clearly c++ templates are beyond the scope of the what RRDEPEND can 
| provide. I could be wrong but I don't think those c++ templates are 
| anything revdep-rebuild or verify-rdepends handle any differently.

That one's a separate issue, since you don't need C++ template header
files installed if you don't ever intend to compile anything on the
system in question. I was thinking more along the lines of (non-minimal)
vim needing vim-core here.

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