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authorMichał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org>2019-12-26 15:12:27 +0100
committerZac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>2021-05-23 22:43:36 -0700
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Initial IDEPEND support (for EAPI 8)
Signed-off-by: Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org>
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@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH "EBUILD" "5" "Apr 2021" "Portage VERSION" "Portage"
+.TH "EBUILD" "5" "May 2021" "Portage VERSION" "Portage"
.SH "NAME"
ebuild \- the internal format, variables, and functions in an ebuild script
@@ -697,6 +697,17 @@ previously known as \fBHDEPEND\fR in the experimental
You may use the syntax described above in the \fBDependencies\fR section.
.TP
+.B IDEPEND
+This should contain a list of all packages that are required to be
+executable during merging of this package (aka \fInative install\-time\fR
+dependencies). These are usually post\-install tooling, like cache
+generators. They will be installed into the system performing
+the merge.
+
+This variable was introduced in \fBEAPI 8\fR.
+
+You may use the syntax described above in the \fBDependencies\fR section.
+.TP
.B PDEPEND
This should contain a list of all packages that should be merged after this
one (aka \fIpost\fR merge dependencies), but which may be installed by the