* Re: [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND
@ 2011-06-12 14:49 99% ` Ulrich Mueller
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From: Ulrich Mueller @ 2011-06-12 14:49 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Michał Górny; +Cc: gentoo-pms, Zac Medico, Ciaran McCreesh
>>>>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Michał Górny wrote:
>> It would be more accurate to say that it's guaranteed except for
>> cases in which circular dependencies make it impossible to
>> guarantee.
> This or other words, this makes this an unreliable feature. So,
> right now, users can't assume anything specific about dependencies
> being installed in pkg_*?
Currently, PMS only says: "These must be installed and usable before
the ebuild is treated as usable." It doesn't say anything about phases.
> Doesn't this make it actually impossible to call the installed
> application in pkg_postinst()?
I've always added such packages that I needed in pkg_postinst() to
both DEPEND and RDEPEND.
IIRC, a specific merge order in Portage is only guaranteed for DEPEND
type dependencies, but not for RDEPEND and PDEPEND.
Ulrich
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