Re: [gentoo-dev] don't rely on dynamic deps

[Tom Wijsman]

On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:37:17 +0000
hasufell <hasufell@g.o> wrote:

> afaiu dynamic deps are broken and not defined in PMS

It goes a step further than that!

The PMS imposes certain limits on dependencies; it states that DEPEND
must be present before executing src_* phases, that RDEPEND must be
present before treating the results as usable and that PDEPEND must be
done before finishing the batch of installs.

http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-750008.1

If you attempt to fit in dynamic dependencies in that specification;
the src_* phases could never run, the results can never be considered
usable and the batch of installs can never finish.

> still... people seem to fix deps without revbumping, causing users who
> either don't use dynamic deps (it's optional for portage through
> --dynamic-deps=y, although it's on by default) or who use a different
> PM to not get the fix, at worst resulting in broken dependency
> calculation

Why do we have a PMS if we don't take into account other PMs?

Is Gentoo still a meta distribution? How does the Portage tree portage?

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Gentoo Developer

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