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From: Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND?
Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2004 12:52:49
Message-Id: 40E6AC17.1080507@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND? by Alexander Holler
1 Alexander Holler wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > can anybody enlight me about the difference between PDEPEND and RDEPEND?
5 >
6 > Is PDEPEND for stuff that MUST be merged after the ebuild is merged, or
7 > is the same like RDEPEND, which means that stuff in PDEPEND could be
8 > merged before or after the ebuild.
9 Reading from man 5 ebuild, it says:
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11 PDEPEND
12 This should contain a list of all packages that will have to be
13 installed *after* the program has been merged.
14 --
15
16 >
17 > What happens with ebuilds in PDEPEND which are already installed?
18 Hm, would be interested to know too...
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21 Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@g.o>
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