On 3/27/07, Alexander K. Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's a matter of classification: > > BuildDepends are buildtime only. > > Depends are both for runtime and buildtime. > > It would certainly be an option for a packaging system also to have, > say, RuntimeDepends, which are only needed at runtime. Fink just > doesn't do that.
Probably worth documenting that difference, though - the 'Depends' in dpkg control files is a runtime dependency, and I have a feeling that RPM treats it the same way. -- - Charles Lepple ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
