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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 04:31:14
Message-Id: 200405130031.26183.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND by Andrew Gaffney
1 On Thursday 13 May 2004 12:23 am, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
2 > What is PDEPEND? I don't see it mentioned anywhere in
3 > <http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-howto.xml>.
4
5 post depend ... provide a way to semi-handle circular dependencies and/or to
6 have portage update another package *after* the current package has been
7 updated.
8
9 it's not in the howto because it's not very common ... the howto handles the
10 most frequently used stuff, not the obscure ... see the manpage if you want
11 everything (like the howto tells you to)
12 -mike
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Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND Joel Martin <kanaka@g.o>
Re: [gentoo-dev] why DEPEND and RDEPEND Drake Wyrm <wyrm@×××××.com>