>>>>> On Wed, 24 Jan 2018, Martin Vaeth wrote: > Rich Freeman <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> It would already be broken on any PMS-compliant package manager
> No, it is solely the interpretation of the package manager. > PMS does not specify what information is stored in /var/db > or how that information is used. "Runtime dependencies (RDEPEND). These must be installed and usable before the results of an ebuild merging are treated as usable." https://projects.gentoo.org/pms/6/pms.html#x1-770008.1 IMHO this implies that the dependencies at merge time are the relevant ones, but not any later changes to the ebuild. Ulrich
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