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| From: | Albert Hopkins <marduk@g.o> | ||
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| To: | gentoo-user@l.g.o | ||
| Subject: | Re: [gentoo-user] why PDEPEND ? | ||
| Date: | Mon, 14 May 2007 13:52:44 | ||
| Message-Id: | 1179150246.25581.4.camel@blackwidow.nbk | ||
| In Reply to: | [gentoo-user] why PDEPEND ? by Enrico Weigelt |
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| 1 | On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:18 +0200, Enrico Weigelt wrote: |
| 2 | > Hi folks |
| 3 | > |
| 4 | > |
| 5 | > I've seen perl has some PDEPEND's, which means that these packages |
| 6 | > (PodParser and Test-Harness) are emerged right after perl. |
| 7 | |
| 8 | > Why is that necessary ? |
| 9 | |
| 10 | Because depends are resolved prior to a given package and so my guess is |
| 11 | the above would fail if perl were not installed/updated first, therefore |
| 12 | they are P[OST]DEPENDs |
| 13 | |
| 14 | |
| 15 | -- |
| 16 | Albert W. Hopkins |
| 17 | |
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