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From: drobbins@g.o
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list
Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 07:44:59
Message-Id: 20010219074459.C2203@cvs.gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Portage 1.5 improvements list by Jerry A!
1 On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 01:13:37AM -0500, Jerry A! wrote:
2 > On Mon, Feb 19, 2001 at 06:33:18AM +0100, Achim Gottinger wrote:
3 > :
4 > : But why DEPEND, you should still be able to make an exim package if you
5 > : have qmail installed.
6 > :
7 > : I think it is ok to use it in RDEPEND only.
8 >
9 > Makes sense. Quick question, will a portage still merge if only RDEPEND
10 > is set?
11 >
12 > The reason I ask is since each portage in virtual/mta creates
13 > /usr/sbin/sendmail, etc... multiple virtual/mta installations will just
14 > trash the previous one.
15
16 The answer is: right now, the RDEPEND setting will prevent a package merge,
17 but won't prevent a source merge. I'll fix this in a few minutes (after
18 I check all my emails) on CVS.
19
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