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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



  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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