qt4-mac dependencies
Michael Dickens
michaelld at macports.org
Thu Jul 8 12:31:40 PDT 2010
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 13:45 -0500, "Ryan Schmidt"
<ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:
>
> depends_build means "needed at build time (i.e. during the configure,
> build, or destroot phases) but not needed at runtime (i.e. after the
> installation is finished and when the user is using the software)".
>
> depends_run means "needed at runtime but not needed at build time".
>
> depends_lib means "needed at both build time and runtime".
>
> From MacPorts' perspective I don't think there's a big difference between
> depends_lib and depends_run; in either case, MacPorts must prevent the
> uninstallation of a dependency so that the software can still function.
>
> I would say depends_lib is probably the best qt4_select dependency type
> for qt4-mac.
Thanks for the descriptions; good to know. I'll make that change
sometime soon. Not a high priority to me. - MLD
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