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Hello Mike, |
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--On Samstag, Juli 03, 2004 19:36:21 -0400 Mike Frysinger |
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<vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Saturday 03 July 2004 11:34 am, Alexander Holler wrote: |
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>> Thats the point. If installing (if it wasn't installed) or reinstalling |
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>> if it was installed afterwards is not a must, then there is no real |
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>> difference between RDEPEND and PDEPEND. Nothing guarantees that a |
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>> package is really (re-) installed afterwards. |
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> it's mostly used to force upgrades with related packages but to avoid |
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> circular dependencies (which would happen with RDEPEND) |
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I think you mean DEPEND, not RDEPEND. Circular dependencies using RDEPEND |
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can't occur, because RDEPEND says nothing about the order in which ebuilds |
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must be installed. |
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Kind regards, Alexander |
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