/var/db/pkg: what's the dif. between rdepend and pdepend?

MasquedAvenger

Hey everyone. I was exploring the contents of /var and ran across /var/db/pkg. I took a look at some of the information and found dependencies for packages listed in pdepend, rdepend, and depend. I noticed that each was different, and was wondering, what's the difference?

James

scout · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:12 am Post subject:

sometimes there are circular dependencies in portage: package A needs B but in your USE flag you put A and there is something in ebuild B that says: if there's the USE flag A, then we need A. But which one to compile first ?
I remeber there was such a circular dependency problem a few months ago with cups, gimp and gimp-print with some particular USE flags.
RDEPEND and PDEPEND are here to tell portage which package are really needed, so that it knows which one to compile first.
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Genone · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 4:24 pm Post subject:

DEPEND = build time dependencies, needed to compile the package
RDEPEND = run time dependencies, needed by the package to work
PDEPEND = post-emerge dependencies, will be installed after the package (various reasons).

btw, all this is also in

MasquedAvenger · Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2004 4:26 pm Post subject:

Ah, I see. Thank you

James