Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
Really, it seems to be an additional type of dependency that neither
DEPEND or RDEPEND fully describe, and this DEPEND+RDEPEND idea isn't
quite capturing it either.
Yup, and for future EAPIs labels can fix this. But we have to have a
sound solution for current EAPIs.
Usually I rather see the specific problem before looking for solutions.
If packages intertwine in strange ways _maybe_ we could work with
upstream to fix the insanity at the source instead host it ourselves.
lu
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