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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list
Date: Sun Feb 18 23:38:01 2001	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A90B930.7CFAC423@gottinger.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20010219011337.A3939@kabbu.akopia.com

"Jerry A!" wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:33:18AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
> :
> : But why DEPEND, you should still be able to make an exim package if you
> : have qmail installed.
> :
> : I think it is ok to use it in RDEPEND only.
>
> Makes sense.  Quick question, will a portage still merge if only RDEPEND
> is set?
>
> The reason I ask is since each portage in virtual/mta creates
> /usr/sbin/sendmail, etc... multiple virtual/mta installations will just
> trash the previous one.

I did not have the time to test portage 1.5 yet. But I think that pkgmerge
only tests RDEPEND.
So adding !virtual/mta to DEPEND whould not change pkgmerges behaviour.
Lets wait for daniels answer.

achim~

>
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2001-02-19  6:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-02-16 10:29 [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list drobbins
2001-02-16 10:41 ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-16 11:20   ` drobbins
2001-02-18 16:20   ` drobbins
2001-02-18 21:29     ` Jerry A!
2001-02-18 21:31       ` drobbins
2001-02-18 22:59         ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-18 23:14           ` Jerry A!
2001-02-18 23:38             ` Achim Gottinger [this message]
2001-02-19  7:45             ` drobbins
2001-02-19  7:44           ` drobbins
2001-02-19  8:12             ` Achim Gottinger
2001-02-19  8:23               ` drobbins

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