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Hello Sergey, |
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--On Samstag, Juli 03, 2004 15:52:39 +0300 Sergey Kuleshov |
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<svyatogor@g.o> wrote: |
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>> can anybody enlight me about the difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND? |
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>> Is PDEPEND for stuff that MUST be merged after the ebuild is merged, or |
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>> is the same like RDEPEND, which means that stuff in PDEPEND could be |
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>> merged before or after the ebuild. |
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> Reading from man 5 ebuild, it says: |
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> PDEPEND |
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> This should contain a list of all packages that will have to be |
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> installed *after* the program has been merged. |
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> -- |
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Thanks, I can read man pages. ;) |
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>> What happens with ebuilds in PDEPEND which are already installed? |
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> Hm, would be interested to know too... |
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Thats the point. If installing (if it wasn't installed) or reinstalling if |
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it was installed afterwards is not a must, then there is no real difference |
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between RDEPEND and PDEPEND. Nothing guarantees that a package is really |
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(re-) installed afterwards. |
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Regards, |
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Alexander |
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