On Mon, 21 Jul 2014 19:37:17 +0000 hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> afaiu dynamic deps are broken and not defined in PMS It goes a step further than that! The PMS imposes certain limits on dependencies; it states that DEPEND must be present before executing src_* phases, that RDEPEND must be present before treating the results as usable and that PDEPEND must be done before finishing the batch of installs. http://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/5/pms.html#x1-750008.1 If you attempt to fit in dynamic dependencies in that specification; the src_* phases could never run, the results can never be considered usable and the batch of installs can never finish. > still... people seem to fix deps without revbumping, causing users who > either don't use dynamic deps (it's optional for portage through > --dynamic-deps=y, although it's on by default) or who use a different > PM to not get the fix, at worst resulting in broken dependency > calculation Why do we have a PMS if we don't take into account other PMs? Is Gentoo still a meta distribution? How does the Portage tree portage? -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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