Re: [gentoo-dev] [EAPI 8 RFC] Install-time dependencies

[Alexis Ballier]

On Fri, 2019-12-20 at 18:55 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > Should we use this to drop RDEPEND from pkg_*inst/rm phases ?
> > PMS states "RDEPEND (unless the particular dependency results in a
> > circular dependency, in which case it may be installed later)"
> > which is
> > kind of "maybe maybe not" and I'm not sure how one can rely on
> > RDEPEND
> > for those phases in their ebuilds if another random ebuild can
> > trigger
> > a case where it's not satisfied.
>
> This wording has already been updated in git. It just says "RDEPEND"
> now
> for these four phases:
>
> https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-720008.1
>
>

Ok.
My question still stands though, so that we can avoid mutual RDEPEND
cycles and also, as you noted on the bug, in a x-compile setting, CHOST
deps are not really needed at installation.