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| author | Dennis Schridde <devurandom@gmx.net> | 2012-09-23 19:51:52 +0200 |
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| committer | Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> | 2012-09-23 19:39:33 -0700 |
| commit | f2da08db6ad7b8c207a58f75e4daf96a74f29c56 (patch) | |
| tree | 7eb88093087a74c0ad29049e723fa3ec48271dc4 /man | |
| parent | a1a8a79a76fd1be60f6fcf992efcbc1d98d0f941 (diff) | |
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Better documentation of PDEPEND in ebuild(5)
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diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5 index dbd024cea..0d4d4e538 100644 --- a/man/ebuild.5 +++ b/man/ebuild.5 @@ -555,8 +555,13 @@ or earlier, then it defaults to the value of \fBDEPEND\fR. In You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR. .TP .B PDEPEND -This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this one, -but may be merged before if need be. +This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this +one, but which may be installed by the package manager at any time, if that is +not possible. + +.B ***WARNING*** +.br +Use this only as last resort to break cyclic dependencies! You may use the same syntax to vary dependencies as seen above in \fBDependencies\fR. .TP |