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On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 12:57:28AM +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> On Sat, 19 Apr 2008 18:38:06 +0200 |
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> "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <hkBst@g.o> wrote: |
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> > I don't know what the general use of pkg_preinst is, but in |
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> > pkg_postinst the package itself should be runnable, so its RDEPENDS |
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> > should be installed and usable at this point. So perhaps we should |
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> > define that "usable" means "each of its RDEPENDs is installed and has |
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> > had its pkg_postinst function run". The recursion of that definition |
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> > then comes from the requirement that RDEPENDs should be usable before |
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> > pkg_postinst starts running. |
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> No good. That prevents RDEPEND <-> RDEPEND cycles from being solved, |
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> and the package manager has to be able to solve that. |
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Not all cycles are solvable w/in the domain of execution which is an |
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unfortunate fact. This loops back into why jstubbs was after use dep |
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cycle breaking (fair bit more fine grained of an issue), a discussion |
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that thus far has been ignored, and the usage of the build flag. |
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> > SRC_UNPACK_DEP="app-arch/unzip" |
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> > SRC_COMPILE_DEP="dev-scheme/bigloo" |
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> > SRC_INSTALL_DEP="" |
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> Labels are a cleaner solution to this. But again, we're discussing |
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> current EAPIs here. |
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Stop name dropping labels until you tell folk about what labels are. |
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I know, but I'd rather not have the notion "labels solves all" pushed |
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forth w/ out people knowing what it is, please. |
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thanks, |
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~harring |
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