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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Cc: gentoo-pms@l.g.o, Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>, Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND
Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2011 21:38:38
Message-Id: 20110619223604.2d4f7f17@googlemail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sun, 19 Jun 2011 23:21:02 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > And the third version.
4 >
5 > I added a note about the possible circular RDEPEND issue. I wanted to
6 > do that through a footnote but wasn't able to get it working so it's
7 > a standard bracket now).
8
9 I still don't think we should be specifying "RDEPEND is PDEPEND if the
10 package manager feels like it". That's something for the package
11 mangler to provide as a horrible --ignore-dependencies-to-break-cycles
12 option.
13
14 Also, isn't pkg_setup the same as pkg_preinst, availability-wise?
15
16 --
17 Ciaran McCreesh

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Re: [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-pms] Rephrasing *DEPEND Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>