* Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.
@ 2007-07-25 15:17 99% ` Carsten Lohrke
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From: Carsten Lohrke @ 2007-07-25 15:17 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
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On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Brian Harring wrote:
> I suggest you in the future check out what actually was changed, and
> do some testing- both the original poster, and yourself are missing
> what is occuring here
Uh, thanks, I never was fond of reading the code of Portage, so I took Piotr's
point as given.
> Note I said 'shift'. It tries to place it earlier in the graph, while
> *still* maintaining the constraints of kdnssd-avahi- namely the
> kdelibs dependency.
>
> Via that dep, kdnssd-avahi *requires* kdelibs to be installed first,
> and portage honors that- it just now tries to get kdnssd-avahi merged
> as soon as possible after kdelibs due to their PDEPEND relationship
> (try it if in doubt, it lineralizes it properly).
>
> The cases where it doesn't, are when the constraints are already
> satisfied- kdelibs already is merged, basically. There is a change in
> placement there, but considering the data involved, wouldn't label it
> a regression- same issue can, and does occur in multiple other ways.
That's fine.
> > The latter.
>
> Former. The ebuild manpage is a bit loose in it's description of what
> PDEPEND does.
Well, I should point out where I come from. There is no need to install a pure
runtime dependency before the ebuild pulling it in. If pure runtime
dependencies would be handled this way, there would be no need for PDEPEND at
all. I consider the current way Portage handles pure runtime dependencies
(causing the need for the artificial PDEPEND in the first place) as
conceptually broken.
Carsten
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