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Ciaran McCreesh wrote:

> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:38:06 +0200
> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o> wrote:
>> I don't know what the general use of pkg_preinst is, but in
>> pkg_postinst the package itself should be runnable, so its RDEPENDS
>> should be installed and usable at this point. So perhaps we should
>> define that "usable" means "each of its RDEPENDs is installed and has
>> had its pkg_postinst function run". The recursion of that definition
>> then comes from the requirement that RDEPENDs should be usable before
>> pkg_postinst starts running.
> 
> No good. That prevents RDEPEND <-> RDEPEND cycles from being solved,
> and the package manager has to be able to solve that.
>
Use PDEPEND.

>> SRC_UNPACK_DEP="app-arch/unzip"
>> SRC_COMPILE_DEP="dev-scheme/bigloo"
>> SRC_INSTALL_DEP=""
> 
> Labels are a cleaner solution to this. But again, we're discussing
> current EAPIs here.
> 
While I like labels they need to be discussed more on-list as well as on
bugzilla (it's not reasonable for you simply to advertise them and then
close down discussion.) For instance, there is no reason everything has to
be loaded into just one extant metadatum, not do they preclude new metadata
(such as a SRC_DEP here.)


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