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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] --nodeps faulty behaviour?
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 18:05:32
Message-Id: 49ECB959.1030705@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] --nodeps faulty behaviour? by Markus Duft
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4 Markus Duft wrote:
5 >> cool thanks :) so this patch makes portage merge in the order given on
6 >> the command line? this means it's the users fault if packages are in the
7 >> wrong order?
8
9 Right.
10
11 >> shouldn't portage do the same thing as with --nodeps,
12 >> except that it doesn't add new packages to the merge list? don't get me
13 >> wrong - i'm quite happy with beeing responsible for the order, i just
14 >> imageined passing (to stay with the same example) "--nodeps texinfo
15 >> help2man" which should reorder to help2man beeing before texinfo, i
16 >> would guess... thoughts?
17
18 Well, what you are describing is something different from what
19 - --nodeps is supposed to mean. The intention for --nodeps is to not
20 account for any dependencies whatsoever. We can add a new option if
21 you need some different behavior.
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23 Thanks,
24 Zac
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Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] --nodeps faulty behaviour? Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>