On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Andreas K. Huettel <dilfri...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> In order to solve bug #503802 [1], I would like to add a >> virtual/podofo-build package to pull in app-text/podofo and >> dev-libs/boost. Then packages like app-text/calibre can put >> virtual/podofo-build in DEPEND and app-text/podofo in RDEPEND. > > This sounds a bit like a one-time solution for a problem that occurs more > frequently... It would be nice to have a more generic solution. :|
If A depends on B, and in order to build A you need C, but in order to run B you do not need C, does it make sense to specify C as a dependency of B, rather than as a dependency of A? The risk I would see is whether that relationship holds 100% of the time. What if somebody comes up with an alternative to boost that is not 100% compatible, but it works for calibre (but not other packages that DEPEND on podofo)? I can see how this approach would work for something like split-headers. However, when you get into things like build systems it seems like this could be problematic. However, I haven't been thinking about this for 3 years... :) -- Rich
