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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Cc: mgorny@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg_setup() can rely on packages common to DEPEND & RDEPEND.
Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2011 08:18:55
Message-Id: 20110813091445.5e7f266a@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg_setup() can rely on packages common to DEPEND & RDEPEND. by "Michał Górny"
1 On Sat, 13 Aug 2011 10:14:50 +0200
2 Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > We can basically assume PM merges either DEPEND or RDEPEND to that
4 > point (depending on whether we're merging source ebuild or binary
5 > package).
6
7 I think we're going about this in the wrong way. We should probably
8 remove all mention of circular dependencies, and just state that
9 there's nothing except system things guaranteed for pkg_*.
10
11 If there's a need for dependencies that will definitely be installed for
12 pkg_setup, we should introduce an IDEPEND (for 'install').
13
14 --
15 Ciaran McCreesh

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