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Zac Medico posted on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:31:12 -0800 as excerpted: |
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> Pacho Ramos wrote: |
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>> but he told me that PDEPEND is really the same as RDEPEND with cycle |
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>> breaking. |
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> This is good description. It's handled the same as RDEPEND except when |
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> it can't due to circular dependencies. That means that it's installed |
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> before, just like RDEPEND, except when resolution of circular |
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> dependencies requires it to be installed after. |
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Thanks. That had confused me too, and Petteri and your definition neatly |
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breaks the confusion dependency cycle. =:^) |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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