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On Wed, 2019-06-05 at 21:10 +0200, Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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> El mié, 05-06-2019 a las 11:12 +0200, Michał Górny escribió: |
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> > [...] |
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> > +# Then you add appropriate dependency to your package. The dependency |
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> > +# type(s) should be: |
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> > +# - DEPEND (+ RDEPEND) if the group is already needed at build time, |
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> > +# - RDEPEND if it is needed at install time (e.g. you 'fowners' files |
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> > +# in pkg_preinst), |
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> > +# - PDEPEND if it is only needed at runtime. |
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> Maybe is a stupid question but, why is PDEPEND preferred over RDEPEND for |
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> packages needing the group only at runtime? |
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To delay user creation as far as possible, in case the package failed to |
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build. Not that it will usually work since Portage will install |
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the user early anyway. |
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> If I don't misremember, PDEPEND was meant to be used to avoid circular deps |
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> issues, while using RDEPEND otherwise |
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> Thanks :) |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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