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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND?
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 23:36:43
Message-Id: 200407031936.21314.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND? by Alexander Holler
1 On Saturday 03 July 2004 11:34 am, Alexander Holler wrote:
2 > Thats the point. If installing (if it wasn't installed) or reinstalling if
3 > it was installed afterwards is not a must, then there is no real difference
4 > between RDEPEND and PDEPEND. Nothing guarantees that a package is really
5 > (re-) installed afterwards.
6
7 it's mostly used to force upgrades with related packages but to avoid circular
8 dependencies (which would happen with RDEPEND)
9 -mike
10
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