From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C2BC138010 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id ED67D21C0B2 for ; Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:04:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net (mailout-de.gmx.net [213.165.64.23]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F9B3E0587 for ; Sun, 23 Sep 2012 22:25:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2012 22:25:54 -0000 Received: from 77-22-12-19-dynip.superkabel.de (EHLO ernie.fritz.box) [77.22.12.19] by mail.gmx.net (mp071) with SMTP; 24 Sep 2012 00:25:54 +0200 X-Authenticated: #19202771 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19gtVZ6eSxgOV+Wf3FxQc0CzA/2GKuJFG/08pREBN H4vqN5oLc2fHbi From: Dennis Schridde To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Dennis Schridde Subject: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 3/5] Better documentation of PDEPEND in ebuild(5) Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:25:38 +0200 Message-Id: <1348439140-28207-4-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.12 In-Reply-To: <1348439140-28207-1-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net> References: <1348439140-28207-1-git-send-email-devurandom@gmx.net> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: 1a966d12-31d8-4247-bc94-264ca580a00a X-Archives-Hash: 0a1e978b5e22225ef94664ce3bd28410 --- 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