On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:24:14 -0400
Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Wed, 25 Jul 2007 08:46:43 -0400
> > Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >   
> >> Now how in the world do you pull a depend that needs to be merged
> >> AFTER the original package?
> >
> > You make the after package DEPEND upon the before package.
> 
> except the user only has to emerge ABC, and as such XYZ needs to be 
> pulled in but AFTER ABC gets emerged. Your answer does not handle
> that situation. It's OBVIOUS (and in all cases in the tree) XYZ
> already DEPENDs on ABC.

ABC: PDEPEND="XYX"
XYZ: DEPEND="ABC"

That's all that's needed to force correct ordering.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh