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Michael Orlitzky <mjo <at> gentoo.org> writes: |
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> > A circular! yippie. So how do I post this bug? Can somebody confirm it? |
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> > just weird..... |
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> It's intentional. In jflex-1.6.1.ebuild, you'll find... |
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> PDEPEND=">=dev-java/javacup-0.11b_p20151001:0" |
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AH. OK. Interesting postulate..... |
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> That's a "post-merge" dependency, and they exist to get around |
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> otherwise-circular dependencies: |
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> https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/ |
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Huh. OK. Never looked at this closely before. It strangely makes sense |
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but, I'm going to have to marinate on this...... |
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> Why those two particular packages have circular deps, I can't say. |
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Beats me too. That why I'm going to marinate on this. Perhaps if somebody |
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was to shed a bit more light on the circular need, it might ease the |
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effort of understanding. |
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Thanks for the the insight. |
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James |
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