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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 21:35:29
Message-Id: 20120918233429.277a4726@pomiocik.lan
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] GLEP: gentoo sync based unified deps proposal by Ciaran McCreesh
1 On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 22:08:43 +0100
2 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote:
3
4 > On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 23:06:06 +0200
5 > Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
6 > > But didn't we already point out that we can't have them in RDEPEND
7 > > since they introduce conflicts?
8 >
9 > You are missing a basic and important part of how dependency
10 > resolution works: currently, cycles consisting purely of RDEPENDs are
11 > ignorable.
12
13 So, what do we lose? If PDEP comes 'ASAP' officially, I believe that we
14 actually gain RDEPs which can be actually trusted.
15
16 --
17 Best regards,
18 Michał Górny

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