Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

[Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>]

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On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> As a result of bug #180045 PDEPENDs can be now merged even before the
> package that pulls them. Zmedico says that's intended behaviour

Well, then what our Portage devs think the intended behaviour should be is a 
bug. E.g. in the case the bug refers to, we rely on Portage building  
kdnssd-avahi after kdelibs (otherwise it simply would fail), but before any 
other ebuild that might need kdnssd-avahi. And I'm pretty sure nearly 
everyone using PDEPEND in his ebuilds relies on Portage building the PDEPEND 
not before the ebuild, which lists it.

> We need to update docs or harass zmedico to force PDEPEND to be pulled as
> soon as possible but not before the pkg that pulls it.

The latter.


Carsten

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