Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
--- Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 01:53:10PM -0500, Daniel
> Burrows wrote:
>
> > That assumes that the runtime dependencies are a
> subset of the build
> > dependencies and their recursive dependencies.
> >
> > Imagine a program that displays its output with
> gv: it doesn't need gv
> > to build, but it needs it at runtime.
>
> Done any ebuilds lately?
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml
>
> "In the official ebuilds, all dependencies have
> already been specified, so
> when you issue emerge net-www/mozilla/mozilla-1.0,
> Portage will insure that
> all libraries necessary for Mozilla to build and run
> are properly installed
> before Mozilla itself is built.
>
> Portage even distinguishes between build-time
> dependencies and run-time
> dependencies. (Caveat: Currently, Portage installs
> all build-time and
> run-time dependencies and leaves it at that. At a
> later stage, it will be
> possible to trim your installation so that only the
> run-time dependencies
> are left installed)."
Point being?? Its not like-for-like and also thats
not the point of this chain. Come on
Jon
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