From f2da08db6ad7b8c207a58f75e4daf96a74f29c56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dennis Schridde Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2012 19:51:52 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Better documentation of PDEPEND in ebuild(5) --- man/ebuild.5 | 9 +++++++-- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 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 -- 2.26.2