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On Sun, 12 Jun 2011 02:13:35 -0700 |
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Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 06/12/2011 01:18 AM, Ulrich Mueller wrote: |
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> >>>>>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Michał Górny wrote: |
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> >> True. How about pkg_setup()? Shall we assume RDEPEND are there or |
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> >> rely on @system only? |
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> > IIUC, with Portage's breaking of dependency cycles there's no |
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> > absolute guarantee that packages in RDEPEND will be available in |
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> > pkg_*. |
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> It would be more accurate to say that it's guaranteed except for cases |
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> in which circular dependencies make it impossible to guarantee. |
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This or other words, this makes this an unreliable feature. So, right |
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now, users can't assume anything specific about dependencies being |
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installed in pkg_*? Doesn't this make it actually impossible to call |
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the installed application in pkg_postinst()? |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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