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. =:^)

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