On Fri, 2019-12-20 at 18:55 +0100, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, 20 Dec 2019, Alexis Ballier wrote: > > Should we use this to drop RDEPEND from pkg_*inst/rm phases ? > > PMS states "RDEPEND (unless the particular dependency results in a > > circular dependency, in which case it may be installed later)" > > which is > > kind of "maybe maybe not" and I'm not sure how one can rely on > > RDEPEND > > for those phases in their ebuilds if another random ebuild can > > trigger > > a case where it's not satisfied. > > This wording has already been updated in git. It just says "RDEPEND" > now > for these four phases: > > https://dev.gentoo.org/~ulm/pms/head/pms.html#x1-720008.1 > >
Ok. My question still stands though, so that we can avoid mutual RDEPEND cycles and also, as you noted on the bug, in a x-compile setting, CHOST deps are not really needed at installation.
