Hello During today's review session with Petteri (due bug #284528) PDEPEND question appeared about what really does it. I replied that it contains dependencies that need to be installed after the package (as is shown in http://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/dependencies/index.html ) but he told me that PDEPEND is really the same as RDEPEND with cycle breaking. He also suggested me to ask portage devs about what it really doing PDEPEND.
Now, after the session, I rechecked devmanual page and noticed that "after" is in cursive (sorry for didn't noticing it before), also googled a bit and found posts like: http://blog.flameeyes.eu/2008/10/18/blurring-the-separation-between-rdepend-and-pdepend http://help.lockergnome.com/linux/gentoo-dev-PDEPEND-behaviour--ftopict483842.html that clearly show PDEPEND is not simply "merge depends after the package". Then, if possible, I would highly appreciate a summary about what really does PDEPEND. Of course, as I know portage devs are overloaded, if you don't have time to reply, no problem at all :-) Thanks a lot
