Hi,
As a non-dev who recently joined this list, I think it
would be too bad for me if you made those policy
changes.
Basically, I neither have the skills nor the time
(yet) to even try to become a dev but I truly enjoy
"contributing" once in a while especially for packages
I use at work.
Since I
--- Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is a
> PDEPEND possible?
I followed your suggestion and posted a couple of
ebuilds for the upcoming Shorewall 4 package:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=174588
I am not seeing cyclic dependency issues anymore.
Thanks for any suggest
--- "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Vieri Di Paola wrote:
> > The two software packages depend at run-time.
>
> then they can simply RDEPEND on eachother. The
> package manager should do the
> right thing.
No, it reports a cyclic d
--- Christian Faulhammer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Vieri Di Paola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > Is there a function that can be used to check
> whether
> > a certain package+version has already been
> emerged?
>
> has_version, but in what way do th
Hi.
How can one avoid cyclic dependencies in custom
ebuilds?
eg.
soft1.ebuild DEPENDs on soft2
but
soft2.ebuild also DEPENDs on soft1
(both packages are required; none of the two works
alone so it wouldn't make sense to install just one)
Is there a function that can be used to check whether
a c
