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From: Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 23:17:19
Message-Id: 20040513231717.GA14521@phaenix.haell.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND by Mike Frysinger
1 At 2004-05-13T00:31:26-0400, Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o> wrote:
2 > On Thursday 13 May 2004 12:23 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
3 > > What is PDEPEND? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in
4 > > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml>.
5 >
6 > post depend ... provide a way to semi-handle circular dependencies and/or to
7 > have portage update another package *after* the current package has been
8 > updated.
9 >
10 > it's not in the howto because it's not very common ... the howto handles the
11 > most frequently used stuff, not the obscure ... see the manpage if you want
12 > everything (like the howto tells you to)
13
14 Thank you. That was a very clear explanation. Just to finish off the
15 set, what is CDEPEND? It doesn't seem to be explained anywhere, and it
16 hardly seems to even be used.
17
18 --
19 Batou: Hey, Major... You ever hear of "human rights"?
20 Kusanagi: I understand the concept, but I've never seen it in action.
21 --Ghost in the Shell

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Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>