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* Re: [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND
  @ 2011-06-12 14:01 99%         ` Brian Harring
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From: Brian Harring @ 2011-06-12 14:01 UTC (permalink / raw
  To: Zac Medico
  Cc: Ulrich Mueller, Michał Górny, gentoo-pms,
	Ciaran McCreesh

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



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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
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