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From: Markus Duft <mduft@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] --nodeps faulty behaviour?
Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 07:01:59
Message-Id: 1240295320.1512.16.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] --nodeps faulty behaviour? by Zac Medico
1 On Mon, 2009-04-20 at 11:05 -0700, Zac Medico wrote:
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5 > Markus Duft wrote:
6 > >> cool thanks :) so this patch makes portage merge in the order given on
7 > >> the command line? this means it's the users fault if packages are in the
8 > >> wrong order?
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10 > Right.
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12 > >> shouldn't portage do the same thing as with --nodeps,
13 > >> except that it doesn't add new packages to the merge list? don't get me
14 > >> wrong - i'm quite happy with beeing responsible for the order, i just
15 > >> imageined passing (to stay with the same example) "--nodeps texinfo
16 > >> help2man" which should reorder to help2man beeing before texinfo, i
17 > >> would guess... thoughts?
18 >
19 > Well, what you are describing is something different from what
20 > - --nodeps is supposed to mean. The intention for --nodeps is to not
21 > account for any dependencies whatsoever. We can add a new option if
22 > you need some different behavior.
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24 hm, ok. nah i don't need it, just wanted to know ;)
25
26 Cheers, Markus
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29 > Thanks,
30 > Zac
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