On Monday 14 May 2007 15:18:21 Enrico Weigelt wrote: > I've seen perl has some PDEPEND's, which means that these packages > (PodParser and Test-Harness) are emerged right after perl. > > Why is that necessary ? > > Shouldn't those packages requiring these two simply have them > as DEPEND ?
Obviously those packages aren't build time dependencies. So the alternative would be RDEPEND (run-time dependencies). PDEPEND (post dependencies) is chosen to avoid circular dependencies. -- Bo Andresen
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