dependency detail

Joshua Root jmr at macports.org
Mon Dec 2 17:26:00 PST 2013


On 2013-12-3 01:24 , Peter Danecek wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> This is a short one. I would have a dependency which is needed at activation. So I assume it does not qualify as build dependency, in fact it is not needed to create the binary package. 
> 
> Now, I wonder if run dependency is appropriate. At least if understanding correctly terminology, "run time" dependencies might become available only **after** installation. I think, in practice this is not the case, but should I rely on this?

Runtime dependencies will always installed before the install target runs.

- Josh


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