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<title>Metadata</title>
<section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-metadata-dependencies'>
<title>Dependencies</title>
+ <section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-metadata-dependencies-rdepend-implicit-removed'>
+ <title>unset RDEPEND no longer triggers implicit setting</title>
+ <para>
+ When the RDEPEND variable is unset within an ebuild, it will remain
+ empty. In prior EAPIs, if RDEPEND was left unset then it was
+ implicitly set to the value of DEPEND.
+ </para>
+ </section>
<section id='package-ebuild-eapi-4_pre1-metadata-dependencies-use-defaults'>
<title>USE Dependency Defaults</title>
<para>