Bug 136262

Summary:	net-analyzer/tcpdump missing RDEPEND on libpcap
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	petre rodan (RETIRED) <kaiowas>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Netmon project <netmon>
Status:	RESOLVED INVALID
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Other
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description petre rodan (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-10 00:59:19 UTC

please add libpcap as RDEPEND for all tcpdump ebuilds, since it's a dynamically linked library needed by your application. [1]
 when installing from binary packages (think catalyst or an enterprise setup), only RDEPEND is checked and that one is missing in your case. [2]

[1] http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html
[2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/29509/

thanks,
peter

Comment 1 Peter Volkov (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-06-10 11:13:29 UTC

peter: Same here. Quoting `man 5 ebuild`:

RDEPEND
     This should contain a list of all packages that are required for this
program to run (aka  runtime depend). If this is not set, then it defaults to
the value of DEPEND. You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen
above in DEPEND.

None of ebuilds in net-analyzer/tcpdupm have RDEPEND variable thus I
think this is not a bug. Reopen, please, if I'm wrong.