From: Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Cc: Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net>
Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 3/5] Better documentation of PDEPEND in ebuild(5)
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:25:38 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1348439140-28207-4-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348439140-28207-1-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net>
---
man/ebuild.5 | 9 +++++++--
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index f3d364e..3f28fce 100644
--- a/man/ebuild.5
+++ b/man/ebuild.5
@@ -555,8 +555,13 @@ or earlier, then it defaults to the value of \fBDEPEND\fR. In
You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR.
.TP
.B PDEPEND
-This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this one,
-but may be merged before if need be.
+This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this
+one, but which may be installed by the package manager at any time, if that is
+not possible.
+
+.B ***WARNING***
+.br
+Use this only as last resort to break cyclic dependencies!
You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR.
.TP
--
1.7.12
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-24 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-23 22:25 [gentoo-portage-dev] Please review: manpage-cleanup Dennis Schridde
2012-09-23 22:25 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 1/5] Adjust code of first paragraph of ebuild(5) to 80 char width Dennis Schridde
2012-09-23 22:25 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 2/5] Fix referencens to Dependencies section of ebuild(5) Dennis Schridde
2012-09-23 22:25 ` Dennis Schridde [this message]
2012-09-23 22:25 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 4/5] Improve wording of *DEPEND variable description in ebuild(5) a bit Dennis Schridde
2012-09-23 22:25 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 5/5] Reorder description of --root-deps in emerge(1) Dennis Schridde
2012-09-23 22:38 ` [gentoo-portage-dev] Please review: manpage-cleanup Dennis Schridde
2012-09-24 2:46 ` Zac Medico
2012-09-24 9:54 ` Dennis Schridde
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