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On Mittwoch, 25. Juli 2007, Vlastimil Babka wrote: |
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> A: PDEPEND="B" |
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> B: DEPEND="A" |
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> If this is what you call RDEPEND conceptually broken, then sorry for |
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> useles try to explain it :) Maybe package manager could be smart enough |
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> and relax the RDEPEND in such cases itself, maybe it's better to say |
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> that via PDEPEND explicitly... |
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Of course a valid example - and yes, that's something the package manager |
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should care about. Admitted, "conceptually broken" was a bit harsh, still |
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both, that a pure runtime dependency gets built before the ebuild needing it |
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by default and the need for PDEPEND seem ugly to me. |
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Carsten |
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