On 04/25/2016 04:50 PM, James wrote:
> 
> A circular! yippie. So how do I post this bug? Can somebody confirm it?
> just weird.....
> 

It's intentional. In jflex-1.6.1.ebuild, you'll find...

  PDEPEND=">=dev-java/javacup-0.11b_p20151001:0"

That's a "post-merge" dependency, and they exist to get around
otherwise-circular dependencies:

  https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/

Why those two particular packages have circular deps, I can't say.


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