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From: 320095285153-0001@t-online.de (Achim Gottinger)
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list
Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 23:37:29
Message-Id: 3A90B930.7CFAC423@gottinger.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list by Jerry A!
1 "Jerry A!" wrote:
2
3 > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:33:18AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
4 > :
5 > : But why DEPEND, you should still be able to make an exim package if you
6 > : have qmail installed.
7 > :
8 > : I think it is ok to use it in RDEPEND only.
9 >
10 > Makes sense. Quick question, will a portage still merge if only RDEPEND
11 > is set?
12 >
13 > The reason I ask is since each portage in virtual/mta creates
14 > /usr/sbin/sendmail, etc... multiple virtual/mta installations will just
15 > trash the previous one.
16
17 I did not have the time to test portage 1.5 yet. But I think that pkgmerge
18 only tests RDEPEND.
19 So adding !virtual/mta to DEPEND whould not change pkgmerges behaviour.
20 Lets wait for daniels answer.
21
22 achim~
23
24 >
25 >
26 > --Jerry
27 >
28 > name: Jerry Alexandratos || Open-Source software isn't a
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30 > email: jerry@×××××××.org || ...It's much more important
31 > || than that!
32 >
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