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From: Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Circular dependencies
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 06:00:22
Message-Id: 1077084017.32085.2.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Circular dependencies by Paul Smith
1 On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 00:56, Paul Smith wrote:
2 > %% Donnie Berkholz <spyderous@g.o> writes:
3 >
4 > >> Anyone have any good ideas about how to manage this?
5 >
6 > db> Get upstream to break package 1 into two packages. Failing this,
7 > db> do it yourself. foo-headers and foo-core or something.
8 >
9 > Unfortunately it's not that easy, since all three package would have to
10 > be split up: one into foo-headers and foo-core, and two into bar-libs
11 > and bar-core and baz-libs and baz-core (or whatever).
12 >
13 > And, these are released often enough that doing it myself would be a
14 > major hassle.
15
16 Then apparently the packages aren't suitable for Portage at this time.
17
18 Donnie
19 --
20 Donnie Berkholz
21 Desktop project co-manager,
22 Cluster project co-lead,
23 Developer Relations,
24 Gentoo Linux

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