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* Re: [gentoo-dev] [EAPI 8 RFC] Install-time dependencies
  @ 2019-12-20 19:33 99%       ` Michał Górny
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From: Michał Górny @ 2019-12-20 19:33 UTC (permalink / raw
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On Sat, 2019-12-21 at 08:21 +1300, Kent Fredric wrote:
> On Fri, 20 Dec 2019 13:54:44 -0500
> Mike Gilbert <floppym@gentoo.org> wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I think you misunderstand something, but I'm not sure exactly how.
> 
> I think the missing part of my understanding might be that IDEPEND
> needs to be satisfied by:
> 
> - Packages installing binpkg's ( which don't need src_fetch, unpack, etc )
> - Package managers *removing* packages.
> 
> As in, if a package declares IDEPEND="foo"
> 
> And "foo" is not available when asking portage to "emerge -C bar"
> 
> Portage must demand that "foo" is reinstalled to allow "bar" to be
> removed ( as foo needs to be there to complete pkg_*rm )
> 
> This probably gonna make package manager fun :)

Hence, ebuilds will need to account for the dependencies actually being
missing in pkg_*rm.  And the package managers must not implement
proactive depcleaning of IDEPEND.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny


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