Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 6/9] acct-{group,user}.eclass: WIP eclasses to maintain users/groups

["Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>]

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On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 21:10 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El mié, 05-06-2019 a las 11:12 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
> > [...]
> > +# Then you add appropriate dependency to your package.  The dependency
> > +# type(s) should be:
> > +# - DEPEND (+ RDEPEND) if the group is already needed at build time,
> > +# - RDEPEND if it is needed at install time (e.g. you 'fowners' files
> > +#   in pkg_preinst),
> > +# - PDEPEND if it is only needed at runtime.
> 
> Maybe is a stupid question but, why is PDEPEND preferred over RDEPEND for
> packages needing the group only at runtime? 

To delay user creation as far as possible, in case the package failed to
build.  Not that it will usually work since Portage will install
the user early anyway.

> 
> If I don't misremember, PDEPEND was meant to be used to avoid circular deps
> issues, while using RDEPEND otherwise
> 
> Thanks :)

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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