Gentoo Archives: gentoo-pms

From:	Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o>
To:	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
Cc:	gentoo-pms@l.g.o
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg_setup() can rely on packages common to DEPEND & RDEPEND.
Date:	Mon, 15 Aug 2011 07:09:17
Message-Id:	`20040.50704.795430.788764@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de`
In Reply to:	Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg_setup() can rely on packages common to DEPEND & RDEPEND. by Ciaran McCreesh

1	>>>>> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
2
3	> On Mon, 15 Aug 2011 08:12:55 +0200
4	> Ulrich Mueller <ulm@g.o> wrote:
5	>> I'd still suggest that for existing EAPIs we should go with
6	>> mgorny's latest patch, simply because "packages common to DEPEND
7	>> and RDEPEND (but see below)" is a more accurate description than
8	>> "none".
9
10	> But if we do that, people will claim it's the package mangler's
11	> fault if packages common to DEPEND and RDEPEND aren't available.
12	> You're asking for something unimplementable to be specified.
13
14	No, they can't claim that, because we explicitly say that there are
15	restrictions in case of circular dependencies.
16
17	Ulrich

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Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH] pkg_setup() can rely on packages common to DEPEND & RDEPEND.	Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>