On Nov 1, 2013, at 3:58 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
> On Nov 1, 2013, at 14:55, Daniel J. Luke <dl...@geeklair.net> wrote:
>> On Nov 1, 2013, at 3:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandes...@macports.org> wrote:
>>> On Nov 1, 2013, at 14:44, Daniel J. Luke wrote:
>>>> On Nov 1, 2013, at 2:09 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>>>> The solution would be for ports that use the ImageMagick libraries to
>>>>> depend on it via depends_lib and for those only needing its programs to
>>>>> depend on it via depends_build and/or depends_run.
>>>>
>>>> I don't think you can say depends_run means 'only depends on programs'
>>>> unless we specifically define it to mean that (I can think of a case where
>>>> something doesn't link with a library or plugin, but loads it at runtime).
>>>
>>> I didn’t say that. I said perhaps we should make “depends_lib” mean that it
>>> depends on (i.e. links with) a library. That doesn’t seem so unreasonable.
>>
>> the quoted sentence indicates:
>>
>> 1. depends_lib == linked to it (needs revbump)
>> 2. depends_build/depends_run == only needs its programs.
>>
>> I'm saying that unless we define depends_build/depends_run as only
>> pertaining to programs, that 2 isn't necessarily true (an application can
>> have a runtime dependency on a library or plugin that it loads at runtime
>> but isn't linked with).
>
> Sorry if I was unclear. My only proposal is:
>
> depends_lib should mean that a port links with another port’s library, such
> that it needs a revbump if that port’s library version increases
>
> If you link with another port’s library, use depends_lib
>
> If you do not link with another port’s library, do not use depends_lib
ok, so you don't actually want to fix the problem you have with some things
depending on ImageMagic libraries and some things depending on just the
programs? :)
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