Michael Orlitzky <mjo <at> gentoo.org> writes:
> > 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" AH. OK. Interesting postulate..... > That's a "post-merge" dependency, and they exist to get around > otherwise-circular dependencies: > https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/ Huh. OK. Never looked at this closely before. It strangely makes sense but, I'm going to have to marinate on this...... > Why those two particular packages have circular deps, I can't say. Beats me too. That why I'm going to marinate on this. Perhaps if somebody was to shed a bit more light on the circular need, it might ease the effort of understanding. Thanks for the the insight. James
