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Hello, |
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--On Sonntag, Juli 04, 2004 12:08:14 -0400 Mike Frysinger |
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<vapier@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sunday 04 July 2004 11:52 am, Alexander Holler wrote: |
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>> When the actual portage handles RDEPEND like DEPEND, I understand why |
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>> PDEPEND was included. But I think this doesn't make sense. |
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> there are valid uses for PDEPEND |
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> for example, gaim and gaim-encryption ... |
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> gaim:PDEPEND="ssl? ( gaim-encryption )" |
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> gaim-encryption:DEPEND="gaim" |
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> people want encryption and they want gaim, but they may know nothing |
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> about gaim-encryption ;) |
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I don't understand this. If gaim-encryption is not needed for installing |
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gaim, I would use gaim:RDEPEND="ssl? ( gaim-encryption) and |
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gaime-encryption:DEPEND="gaim". |
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I understand it, because I now know that RDEPEND is currently handled like |
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DEPEND but i still think this is wrong. RDEPEND could be handled like |
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DEPEND, but to avoid circular dependecies, portage could decide to install |
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a runtime dependency after the packgage which includes the things in his |
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RDEPEND. |
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Regards, |
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Alexander |
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