From: Brian Harring <ferringb@gmail.com>
To: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
Cc: "Ulrich Mueller" <ulm@gentoo.org>,
"Michał Górny" <mgorny@gentoo.org>,
gentoo-pms@lists.gentoo.org,
"Ciaran McCreesh" <ciaran.mccreesh@googlemail.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 07:01:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110612140113.GA9265@hrair> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DF4833F.7000401@gentoo.org>
On Sun, Jun 12, 2011 at 02:13:35AM -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
> On 06/12/2011 01:18 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> >>>>>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Michał Górny wrote:
> >
> >> True. How about pkg_setup()? Shall we assume RDEPEND are there or
> >> rely on @system only?
> >
> > IIUC, with Portage's breaking of dependency cycles there's no absolute
> > guarantee that packages in RDEPEND will be available in pkg_*.
>
> It would be more accurate to say that it's guaranteed except for cases
> in which circular dependencies make it impossible to guarantee.
Those instances shouldn't be just dropped by the manager; a
--force-break-ebuild-rules option for those cases is one thing, same
for attempting multiple merge/replace to break a use cycle.
But if it just says "meh" to a cycle... that's wrong.
Under what scenarios will it pull that?
~brian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-06-12 14:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-11 7:32 [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND Michał Górny
2011-06-11 11:53 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-06-12 7:52 ` Michał Górny
2011-06-12 8:18 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-06-12 9:13 ` Zac Medico
2011-06-12 13:16 ` Michał Górny
2011-06-12 14:49 ` Ulrich Mueller
2011-06-12 14:55 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-06-12 18:03 ` Zac Medico
2011-06-12 18:19 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-06-12 14:01 ` Brian Harring [this message]
2011-06-12 13:29 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-06-12 18:52 ` Michał Górny
2011-06-19 21:21 ` Michał Górny
2011-06-19 21:36 ` Ciaran McCreesh
2011-06-20 6:34 ` Michał Górny
2011-06-20 11:26 ` Ulrich Mueller
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