On Wednesday, 31 August 2005, at 16:25:14 (+0900),
Carsten Haitzler wrote:

> > e.g if you state that package X:
> > 
> > BuildRequires: edje-devel
> > 
> > Only stating this would imply for a tool like yum/apt to automatically
> > download edje for RUNNING the application.
> > 
> > i.e if you type: yum install X
> > Then you will get 
> > 
> > X depends on edje... ready to download.
> > 1.edje
> > 2. X
> > Proceed?
> 
> weird. its a build requires. it should not think this. this is not a good 
> thing
> imho. can you turn it OFF? a BUILD may require edje-devel but runtime it may
> not need it.

No, it's not a good thing.  Fortunately, it's not true either.  :-)

> hmm rpm has gone downhill - this above is bad imho. there are cases
> where it will be wrong.

Then it's a good thing it doesn't actually happen, eh? :)  RPM will
only pull in run-time dependencies based on build-time dependencies if
it detects a run-time dependency as a result (like library linkage).

Michael

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