Ports and their dependencies (run deps and also versioning questions)

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jun 8, 2008, at 06:54, Joshua Root wrote:

> Depends_lib doesn't apply to only libraries. Its actual meaning is
> "these dependencies are required both at build time and at runtime."

Goodness. I never thought of it that way. I suppose I can't find  
anything wrong with that definition...

> Depends_build means "required at build time but not runtime", and
> depends_run means "required at runtime but not build time." So all
> dependency specifications (bin,lib,path,port) are valid in each list
> (depends_lib,depends_build,depends_run). (Do we have preferred
> disambiguating terminology for these concepts? Would make discussing
> them a lot clearer...)