Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH v2 6/9] acct-{group,user}.eclass: WIP eclasses to maintain users/groups

[Pacho Ramos]

El mié, 05-06-2019 a las 11:12 +0200, Michał Górny escribió:
> [...]
> +# Then you add appropriate dependency to your package.  The dependency
> +# type(s) should be:
> +# - DEPEND (+ RDEPEND) if the group is already needed at build time,
> +# - RDEPEND if it is needed at install time (e.g. you 'fowners' files
> +#   in pkg_preinst),
> +# - PDEPEND if it is only needed at runtime.

Maybe is a stupid question but, why is PDEPEND preferred over RDEPEND for
packages needing the group only at runtime? 

If I don't misremember, PDEPEND was meant to be used to avoid circular deps
issues, while using RDEPEND otherwise

Thanks :)