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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND?
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:35:05
Message-Id: 20040728193033.GJ9301@time.flatmonk.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND? by Alexander Holler
1 Alexander Holler wrote: [Sun Jul 04 2004, 12:20:09PM EDT]
2 > >jstubbs wrote:
3 > >>foo:DEPEND="bar"
4 > >>bar:RDEPEND="baz"
5 > >>baz:DEPEND=""
6 >
7 > Then installing foo could be bar-foo-baz, bar-baz-foo or baz-bar-foo as
8 > I've written.
9
10 I'm sorry that I'm coming into this late, but jstubbs is correct. The
11 order has to be one of baz-bar-foo or bar-baz-foo. The reason is that
12 foo's DEPEND might require runtime behavior of bar, for example it
13 might need to execute bar as part of foo's build process.
14
15 Regards,
16 Aron
17
18 --
19 Aron Griffis
20 Gentoo Linux Developer