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authorUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2014-11-15 13:13:06 +0100
committerUlrich Müller <ulm@gentoo.org>2014-11-15 13:13:06 +0100
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tree14ea657976d4c7674b874df4af8cbb7428cb0721 /ebuild-writing
parentMerge pull request #24 from maekke/css (diff)
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Clarify that PDEPEND may be installed after the package in some cases.
Bug 424117.
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diff --git a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
index abe66ce..a31baa2 100644
--- a/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
+++ b/ebuild-writing/variables/text.xml
@@ -215,9 +215,9 @@ The following variables may or must be defined by every ebuild.
<tr>
<ti><c>PDEPEND</c></ti>
<ti>
- A list of packages to be installed after the package
- is merged. Should only be used where <c>RDEPEND</c> is not
- possible. See <uri link="::general-concepts/dependencies"/>.
+ A list of packages to be installed (if possible) after the package
+ is merged. Use this only when <c>RDEPEND</c> would cause cyclic
+ dependencies. See <uri link="::general-concepts/dependencies"/>.
</ti>
</tr>
<tr>