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On Fri, 07 Sep 2012 16:28:40 -0400
Ian Stakenvicius <a...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >> - - the new DEPEND now will be used for things that are
> >> *currently* in RDEPEND and DEPEND (so that things will work) but
> >> are not actually run-time dependencies.  Said atoms will then be
> >> removed from RDEPEND (and not be included in the new HDEPEND
> >> either) as they aren't really supposed to be there in the first
> >> place.
> > 
> > I'm not entirely sure that there are more than a handful of very 
> > special cases that would be covered by the second point. Can
> > anyone provide examples?
> 
> Bug 263343 , the 'fontconfig' dep for some package i wasn't able to
> find easily

Do we have an explanation as to *why* fontconfig has to be on ROOT
here? Is it because $ROOT/var/cache/fontconfig needs to exist at build
time, but not at runtime? If so, is this better fixed by using a
temporary directory?

> Bug 317337 (original HDEPEND proposal) mentions the
> x11-proto/xcb-proto dep for libxcb (and i assume anything else
> depending on xcb-proto)

That's a BADEPEND.

- -- 
Ciaran McCreesh
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