--- Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:53:10PM -0500, Daniel > Burrows wrote: > > > That assumes that the runtime dependencies are a > subset of the build > > dependencies and their recursive dependencies. > > > > Imagine a program that displays its output with > gv: it doesn't need gv > > to build, but it needs it at runtime. > > Done any ebuilds lately? > > http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml > > "In the official ebuilds, all dependencies have > already been specified, so > when you issue emerge net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.0, > Portage will insure that > all libraries necessary for Mozilla to build and run > are properly installed > before Mozilla itself is built. > > Portage even distinguishes between build-time > dependencies and run-time > dependencies. (Caveat: Currently, Portage installs > all build-time and > run-time dependencies and leaves it at that. At a > later stage, it will be > possible to trim your installation so that only the > run-time dependencies > are left installed)."
Point being?? Its not like-for-like and also thats not the point of this chain. Come on Jon __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus – Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com
