Attachment 389378 Details for Bug 424117 – Patch for general-concepts/dependencies and ebuild-writing/variables

[patch] Patch for general-concepts/dependencies and ebuild-writing/variables

0001-Clarify-that-PDEPEND-may-be-installed-after-the-pack.patch (text/plain), 2.20 KB, created by Ulrich Müller on 2014-11-15 12:19:07 UTC

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Creator: Ulrich Müller

Created: 2014-11-15 12:19:07 UTC

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>From af8bf2fcb2fbfe68ba71d15bc0a204d51f7b6078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: =?UTF-8?q?Ulrich=20M=C3=BCller?= <ulm@gentoo.org>
>Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 13:13:06 +0100
>Subject: [PATCH] Clarify that PDEPEND may be installed after the package in
> some cases.
>
>Bug 424117.
>---
> ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml      |  6 +++---
> general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml | 10 ++++++----
> 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
>index abe66ce..a31baa2 100644
>--- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
>+++ b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
>@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ The following variables may or must be defined by every ebuild.
>   <tr>
>     <ti><c>PDEPEND</c></ti>
>     <ti>
>-    A list of packages to be installed after the package
>-    is merged. Should only be used where <c>RDEPEND</c> is not
>-    possible. See <uri link="::general-concepts/dependencies"/>.
>+    A list of packages to be installed (if possible) after the package
>+    is merged. Use this only when <c>RDEPEND</c> would cause cyclic
>+    dependencies. See <uri link="::general-concepts/dependencies"/>.
>     </ti>
>   </tr>
>   <tr>
>diff --git a/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml b/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml
>index dc95e28..24b9902 100644
>--- a/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml
>+++ b/general-concepts/dependencies/text.xml
>@@ -56,10 +56,12 @@ Items which are in <c>RDEPEND</c> but not <c>DEPEND</c> could <e>in theory</e> b
> <body>
> 
> <p>
>-The <c>PDEPEND</c> variable specifies dependencies which must be merged <e>after</e> the
>-package. This is sometimes used for plugins which have a dependency upon the
>-package being merged. Generally <c>PDEPEND</c> should be avoided in favour of
>-<c>RDEPEND</c> except where this will create circular dependency chains.
>+The <c>PDEPEND</c> variable specifies dependencies that should be
>+merged <e>after</e> the package, but which may be merged at any time,
>+if the former is not possible. This is sometimes used for plugins
>+that have a dependency upon the package being merged. Generally
>+<c>PDEPEND</c> should be avoided in favour of <c>RDEPEND</c> except
>+where this will create circular dependency chains.
> </p>
> 
> </body>
>-- 
>2.1.3
>

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