On 05:31 Sat 19 Apr , Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > I'm rewording the PMS sections on dependencies to avoid permitting > overly lax circular dependency resolution. Which of these wordings is > accurate, given that usable means "has its RDEPENDs installed and > usable"? > > 1. During pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst, any package dependency that is > in both DEPEND and RDEPEND must be installed and usable. > > 2. During pkg_preinst and pkg_postinst, at least one of the following > conditions must be met: > a. every package dependency in DEPEND must be installed and usable > b. every package dependency in RDEPEND must be installed and usable
I'd go with RDEPEND only. Any other interpretation results in installing build-time-only packages along with a binpkg, which doesn't seem to make sense. Thanks, Donnie -- gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
