From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JoPAJ-0005ax-Lo for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:32:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A66D3E046F; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nameserver1.mcve.com (nameserver1.mcve.com [216.155.111.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 896C8E046F for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:32:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.55] (shop.monetra.com [216.155.111.10]) by nameserver1.mcve.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6AB251110134 for ; Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:32:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <480E4B60.8040409@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 16:32:32 -0400 From: Doug Goldstein User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.12 (X11/20080227) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst References: <20080419053116.50e0ffe6@snowcone> <20080419044512.GD29470@supernova> <20080419055420.29ab56e1@snowcone> In-Reply-To: <20080419055420.29ab56e1@snowcone> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: b76894c2-7702-4fa4-b926-0044ba4751ce X-Archives-Hash: a4ee049d14ee9398de6c1bd32990a71c Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700 > Donnie Berkholz wrote: > >> 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. >> > > That's definitely not what we want. Only a package's DEPENDs have to be > installed and usable when that package is built. Its RDEPENDs don't > have to be installed until that package is treated as usable. > > For why this matters: > > cat/a-1: RDEPEND cat/b > cat/b-1: RDEPEND cat/a > > This is solvable. If package managers can't solve this, they can't > install Gnome off a stage 3... > > I think Donnie (and I) are both looking for concrete examples here. You're claiming GNOME can't be installed so please give us an example with in-tree packages where this breaks. -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list