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On Sun, 04 Jul 2004 12:50:40 +0200 Alexander Holler |
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<holler@××××××××××.de> wrote: |
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| > it's mostly used to force upgrades with related packages but to |
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| > avoid circular dependencies (which would happen with RDEPEND) |
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| I think you mean DEPEND, not RDEPEND. Circular dependencies using |
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| RDEPEND can't occur, because RDEPEND says nothing about the order in |
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| which ebuilds must be installed. |
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No, he means RDEPEND. Currently, portage will always install RDEPEND |
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before the package. This is considered by some to be a Bad Thing (TM). |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Sparc, MIPS, Vim, Fluxbox) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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