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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge(1): document --oneshot caveats (bug 563482)
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2015 05:11:33
Message-Id: 56271E7C.60000@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH] emerge(1): document --oneshot caveats (bug 563482) by Rob Wortman
1 On 10/20/2015 05:37 PM, Rob Wortman wrote:
2 > On 2015-10-20 at 21:44:58 +0200, bernalex@g.o wrote:
3 >> (since it's describing somewhat complicated functionality)
4 >
5 > So, I'm curious what's actually going on there. If I emerge packages
6 > with --oneshot, does that create the possibility of broken dependencies
7 > for world-reachable packages, or does updating @world create the
8 > possiblity of broken dependencies for oneshot'ed packages?
9 >
10
11 Any packages that are not reachable from @world are ripe for removal by
12 --depclean, so we allow their dependencies to break in order to satisfy
13 other dependencies (like in bug 563482). If you don't use --deep, then
14 emerge may try to build something that depends on one of these
15 unreachable packages with broken dependencies, such that whatever you
16 are trying to build has broken indirect dependencies (which is likely to
17 trigger a build failure like in bug 563482).
18 --
19 Thanks,
20 Zac

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