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Re: problems updating math/py-rpy package



* On 2015-04-29 at 03:05 BST, Brook Milligan wrote:

> On Apr 28, 2015, at 1:39 PM, Alexander Nasonov wrote:
> > I had the same question about a package py-rpy depends on (I don't
> > remember if it was py-singledispatch or py-sqlite) but wiz@ used DEPENDS.
>
> This is a point I have never been quite certain about.  What is the
> guidance for DEPENDS versus buildlink?  Is that clearly stated
> somewhere that I don't know about?

Buildlink must be used when a package provides headers and libraries
to be used by other packages.  DEPENDS for everything else.

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Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com


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