Zac Medico posted on Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:31:12 -0800 as excerpted: > Pacho Ramos wrote: >> but he told me that PDEPEND is really the same as RDEPEND with cycle >> breaking. > > This is good description. It's handled the same as RDEPEND except when > it can't due to circular dependencies. That means that it's installed > before, just like RDEPEND, except when resolution of circular > dependencies requires it to be installed after.
Thanks. That had confused me too, and Petteri and your definition neatly breaks the confusion dependency cycle. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
