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List:       gentoo-portage-dev
Subject:    [gentoo-portage-dev] [PATCH 4/6] Better documentation of PDEPEND in ebuild(5)
From:       Dennis Schridde <devurandom () gmx ! net>
Date:       2012-09-23 22:32:11
Message-ID: 1348439533-28481-5-git-send-email-devurandom () gmx ! net
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---
 man/ebuild.5 | 9 +++++++--
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man/ebuild.5 b/man/ebuild.5
index f3d364e..3f28fce 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
-- 
1.7.12



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