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From: Carsten Lohrke <carlo@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 19:31:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707251931.47173.carlo@gentoo.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46A76D1C.2050301@gentoo.org>

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On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> A: PDEPEND="B"
> B: DEPEND="A"
>
> If this is what you call RDEPEND conceptually broken, then sorry for
> useles try to explain it :) Maybe package manager could be smart enough
> and relax the RDEPEND in such cases itself, maybe it's better to say
> that via PDEPEND explicitly...

Of course a valid example - and yes, that's something the package manager 
should care about. Admitted, "conceptually broken" was a bit harsh, still 
both, that a pure runtime dependency gets built before the ebuild needing it 
by default and the need for PDEPEND seem ugly to me.


Carsten

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  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-25 17:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-25 12:08 [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-07-25 12:32 ` Brian Harring
2007-07-25 12:46 ` Doug Goldstein
2007-07-25 14:15   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-25 14:24     ` Doug Goldstein
2007-07-25 14:32       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-25 12:51 ` Carsten Lohrke
2007-07-25 14:17   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-25 14:28     ` Doug Goldstein
2007-07-25 14:41       ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-25 14:25   ` Brian Harring
2007-07-25 15:17     ` Carsten Lohrke
2007-07-25 15:32       ` Vlastimil Babka
2007-07-25 17:31         ` Carsten Lohrke [this message]
2007-07-25 14:18 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-25 15:18   ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-07-25 14:18 ` Doug Goldstein
2007-07-25 14:31   ` Ciaran McCreesh
2007-07-25 15:07   ` Piotr Jaroszyński
2007-07-25 14:31 ` Joe Peterson

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