Re: [gentoo-pms] [PATCH 2/3] dependencies: Remove the circular dep special case for RDEPEND

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 04 Oct 2018, Michał Górny wrote:

> Remove the circular dependency note for RDEPEND.  This is confusing
> at best, and there is no gain from claiming that non-standard, redundant
> Portage behavior is valid.

> Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o>
> ---
>  dependencies.tex | 3 +--
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

> diff --git a/dependencies.tex b/dependencies.tex
> index 65ec074..3c5d297 100644
> --- a/dependencies.tex
> +++ b/dependencies.tex
> @@ -21,8 +21,7 @@
>            \t{src_install} & \t{DEPEND}, \t{BDEPEND} \\
>        \addlinespace
>        \t{pkg_preinst}, \t{pkg_postinst}, \t{pkg_prerm}, \t{pkg_postrm} &
> -          \t{RDEPEND} (unless the particular dependency results in a circular dependency, in which
> -          case it may be installed later) \\
> +          \t{RDEPEND} \\
>        \addlinespace
>        \t{pkg_config} & \t{RDEPEND}, \t{PDEPEND} \\
>        \bottomrule
> --
> 2.19.0

Ack.