Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> No. PMS does not specify which dependency information has >> to be taken. > > Yes it does. Please read PMS, and do not guess as to what it says.
Looking for /var/db/pkg gave exactly one hit: The assertion that this is *not* part of PMS. The section on dependencies is only about the ebuild format. So either it is very hidden or not in there.