Re: [gentoo-dev] The fun of being a PDEPEND

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 11 Aug 2011, Fabio Erculiani wrote:

> The case which triggered my attention was actually
> app-office/libreoffice with USE="java". pkg_setup (through
> java-utils-2.eclass java-pkg_switch-vm [1]) expects to find a
> functional JDK environment,

Generally, you cannot rely on any dependency (outside of the system
set) being present in pkg_setup:

<http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-720008>

Ulrich

> [1] depend-java-query --get-vm "${JAVA_PKG_NV_DEPEND:-${DEPEND}}"
> expects to find a sane JDK environment.