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>>>>> On Sun, 12 Jun 2011, Micha³ Górny wrote: |
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>> It would be more accurate to say that it's guaranteed except for |
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>> cases in which circular dependencies make it impossible to |
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>> guarantee. |
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> This or other words, this makes this an unreliable feature. So, |
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> right now, users can't assume anything specific about dependencies |
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> being installed in pkg_*? |
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Currently, PMS only says: "These must be installed and usable before |
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the ebuild is treated as usable." It doesn't say anything about phases. |
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> Doesn't this make it actually impossible to call the installed |
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> application in pkg_postinst()? |
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I've always added such packages that I needed in pkg_postinst() to |
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both DEPEND and RDEPEND. |
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IIRC, a specific merge order in Portage is only guaranteed for DEPEND |
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type dependencies, but not for RDEPEND and PDEPEND. |
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Ulrich |
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