Re: [gentoo-dev] Dependencies that're available at pkg_*inst

[Doug Goldstein]

Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:45:13 -0700
> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o> wrote:
>
>> I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in
>> installing build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which
>> doesn't seem to make sense.
>>
>
> That's definitely not what we want. Only a package's DEPENDs have to be
> installed and usable when that package is built. Its RDEPENDs don't
> have to be installed until that package is treated as usable.
>
> For why this matters:
>
> cat/a-1: RDEPEND cat/b
> cat/b-1: RDEPEND cat/a
>
> This is solvable. If package managers can't solve this, they can't
> install Gnome off a stage 3...
>
>
I think Donnie (and I) are both looking for concrete examples here. 
You're claiming GNOME can't be installed so please give us an example 
with in-tree packages where this breaks.
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