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>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Martin Vaeth wrote: |
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> Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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>> It would already be broken on any PMS-compliant package manager |
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> No, it is solely the interpretation of the package manager. |
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> PMS does not specify what information is stored in /var/db |
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> or how that information is used. |
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"Runtime dependencies (RDEPEND). These must be installed and usable |
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before the results of an ebuild merging are treated as usable." |
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https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-770008.1 |
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IMHO this implies that the dependencies at merge time are the relevant |
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ones, but not any later changes to the ebuild. |
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Ulrich |
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