Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND

[Georgi Georgiev]

maillog: 13/05/2004-19:19:14(-0700): Yi Qiang types
> On 11:03 Thu 13 May     , Joel Martin wrote:
> > > post depend ... provide a way to semi-handle circular dependencies and/or to
> > > have portage update another package *after* the current package has been
> > > updated.
> >
> > I have a question from a practical case. What about the case where
> > a package should be re-merged afterwards, but only if it's already
> > installed.
> >
> > For example, in the case of indeview, which is an export filter for
> > openoffice, it modifies some openoffice data files.
> >
> > indeview doesn't require openoffice (because it also works for koffice),
> > but if openoffice is installed, or re-installed, indeview needs to be
> > re-installed also in order to update the data files. Is there a correct
> > way to do this. I don't think PDEPEND is quite the right answer, because
> > then everyone who installs openoffice will get indeview, which isn't the
> > correct action.
> >
> > Joel Martin - kanaka
>
> Hopefully this will be addressed later, but for now, i think what you are
> looking for is a post install message.

Or maybe moving the sed action to pkg_config()

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