Questions on dependencies

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Oct 31, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Peter Danecek <Peter.Danecek at bo.ingv.it> wrote:

> (2) python package dependencies
> 
> Intuitively, I would say that most python package dependencies were lib dependencies. But they actually may install without, right? So is it okay to declare them lib dependencies or might it be better to make them runtime dependencies?

If the presence of a dependency does not affect the installation, it should be a runtime dependency, not a library dependency. This is more semantically accurate.

vq