On Sun, 2006-01-01 at 01:12 +0000, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:54:21 -0500 Chris Gianelloni > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:40 -0500, Peter wrote: > | > This is because glx has kernel as a dependency. Can't have it both > | > ways (as someone else here pointed out) because you'd have a > | > circular dependency...kernel requires glx, but glx requires kernel > | > which requires glx...and around we go. > | > | Why can't both RDEPEND on the other? This works perfectly fine for > | many packages in the tree. A circular dependency isn't a bad thing if > | they're both in RDEPEND, it is when they're both in DEPEND that causes > | an issue. > > It only works right now because of a coincidence in how Portage's dep > resolver (doesn't) work. > Isn't this what PDEPEND is for? -- Tres Melton IRC & Gentoo: RiverRat
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