Changeset bca432d

Timestamp:

03/19/2023 01:52:58 PM (14 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.0, 12.1, kea, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, lxqt, plabs/newcss, python3.11, qt5new, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, renodr/vulkan-addition, trunk, xry111/llvm18, xry111/xf86-video-removal

Children:

4758182

Parents:

e746d733

git-author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (03/19/2023 12:08:07 PM)

git-committer:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…> (03/19/2023 01:52:58 PM)

Message:

building-notes: Explain runtime dependencies

File:

• introduction/important/building-notes.xml (modified) (1 diff)

introduction/important/building-notes.xml

@@ -473 +473 @@
         installed for added functionality. Often BLFS will describe the
         dependency to explain the added functionality that will result.</para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para><emphasis>Runtime</emphasis> means this package is not needed
+        to install the target package, but when you run a program from the
+        target package or a program using a library from the target
+        package, it may lack some functionality or even crash immediately.
+        Based on the importance of the lacked functionality, the Runtime
+        dependencies are further labeled as Required, Recommended, or
+        Optional.  You can install a Runtime dependency to recover the
+        lacked functionality of the target package, without rebuilding the
+        target package itself.</para>
+        <para>
+          Note that a target package can start to <quote>run</quote> in
+          many subtle ways: an installed configuration file can make the
+          init system, cron daemon, or bus daemon to run a program
+          automatically; another package using the target package as an
+          dependency can run a program from the target package in the
+          building system; and the configuration sections in the BLFS book
+          may also run a program from a just installed package.  So if
+          you are installing the target package without a
+          <emphasis>Required (Runtime)</emphasis> dependency installed,
+          You should install the dependency as soon as possible after the
+          installation of the target package.
+        </para>
       </listitem>
     </itemizedlist>