From: Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080419044512.GD29470@supernova> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080419053116.50e0ffe6@snowcone>
On 05:31 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> I'm rewording the PMS sections on dependencies to avoid permitting
> overly lax circular dependency resolution. Which of these wordings is
> accurate, given that usable means "has its RDEPENDs installed and
> usable"?
>
> 1. During pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst, any package dependency that is
> in both DEPEND and RDEPEND must be installed and usable.
>
> 2. During pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst, at least one of the following
> conditions must be met:
> a. every package dependency in DEPEND must be installed and usable
> b. every package dependency in RDEPEND must be installed and usable
I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in installing
build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which doesn't seem to make
sense.
Thanks,
Donnie
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Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-19 4:31 [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-19 4:45 ` Donnie Berkholz [this message]
2008-04-19 4:54 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-19 5:27 ` Donnie Berkholz
2008-04-19 5:33 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-19 7:43 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-04-22 7:09 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-22 18:31 ` Chris Gianelloni
2008-04-19 18:53 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-04-19 23:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-21 5:17 ` [gentoo-dev] " Donnie Berkholz
2008-04-21 5:23 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-21 8:52 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2008-04-21 9:00 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-21 10:22 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2008-04-21 10:10 ` [gentoo-dev] " Luca Barbato
2008-04-21 10:15 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-21 10:05 ` Luca Barbato
2008-04-21 10:17 ` Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
2008-04-22 20:32 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-04-19 16:38 ` Marijn Schouten (hkBst)
2008-04-19 23:57 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-20 1:29 ` Brian Harring
2008-04-20 8:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-20 10:48 ` Santiago M. Mola
2008-04-22 20:31 ` Doug Goldstein
2008-04-27 9:41 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-04-27 10:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2008-04-28 4:57 ` [gentoo-dev] " Steve Long
2008-04-28 12:13 ` Ciaran McCreesh
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