Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.

[Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>]

Piotr Jaroszyński wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> As a result of bug #180045 PDEPENDs can be now merged even before the package 
> that pulls them. Zmedico says that's intended behaviour and PDEPEND is really 
> a RDEPEND, but with a ability to resolve circular deps:
> circular DEPEND <-> RDEPEND can't be resolved while circular DEPEND <-> 
> PDEPEND can.
> Random behaviour occurs when there is a circular RDEPEND <-> PDEPEND, e.g. bug 
> #186517.
> 
> 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.
> 

Now how in the world do you pull a depend that needs to be merged AFTER 
the original package?

i.e. Package ABC and Package XYZ... Package XYZ is a series of config 
files and data for Package ABC. The files of XYZ need to be owned by 
user abc which gets created by Package ABC. Those files also need to be 
installed in /usr/share/abc, which gets created by Package ABC.

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Doug Goldstein <cardoe@gentoo.org>
http://dev.gentoo.org/~cardoe/

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