On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700 Donnie Berkholz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in > installing build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which > doesn't seem to make sense.
That's definitely not what we want. Only a package's DEPENDs have to be installed and usable when that package is built. Its RDEPENDs don't have to be installed until that package is treated as usable. For why this matters: cat/a-1: RDEPEND cat/b cat/b-1: RDEPEND cat/a This is solvable. If package managers can't solve this, they can't install Gnome off a stage 3... -- Ciaran McCreesh
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