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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Runtime deps, binary packages and merge order
Date: Wed, 05 Dec 2007 18:41:35
Message-Id: 4756F0B0.1060105@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] Runtime deps, binary packages and merge order by Zac Medico
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4 Zac Medico wrote:
5 > The resolver currently tries to merge both RDEPEND and PDEPEND
6 > before whenever possible. There is an optimization in 2.1.4_rc that
7 > improves merge order in some circular RDEPEND cases, see the
8 > cmp_circular_bias() function in depgraph.altlist(). There was
9 > another related optimization for bug #189966 that's already in 2.1.3.19.
10 >
11 > I would encourage people to use PDEPEND whenever appropriate. Since
12 > the fix for bug 176765 (2.1.2.6) it behaves very similar to
13 > RDEPEND, so it should be usable in more cases.
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15 Pardon, I meant to say bug 180045 (2.1.2.10) instead of bug 176765.
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17 Zac
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