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* Re: [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour.
  @ 2007-07-25 17:31 99%     ` Carsten Lohrke
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From: Carsten Lohrke @ 2007-07-25 17:31 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> A: PDEPEND="B"
> B: DEPEND="A"
>
> If this is what you call RDEPEND conceptually broken, then sorry for
> useles try to explain it :) Maybe package manager could be smart enough
> and relax the RDEPEND in such cases itself, maybe it's better to say
> that via PDEPEND explicitly...

Of course a valid example - and yes, that's something the package manager 
should care about. Admitted, "conceptually broken" was a bit harsh, still 
both, that a pure runtime dependency gets built before the ebuild needing it 
by default and the need for PDEPEND seem ugly to me.


Carsten

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2007-07-25 12:08     [gentoo-dev] New PDEPEND behaviour Piotr Jaroszyński
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