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From: Ryan Hill <dirtyepic@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: cyclic dependency
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 00:19:22
Message-Id: f6c4g1$ob6$1@sea.gmane.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cyclic dependency by "Marijn Schouten (hkBst)"
1 Marijn Schouten (hkBst) wrote:
2 > Vieri Di Paola wrote:
3 >> The two software packages depend at run-time.
4 >
5 > then they can simply RDEPEND on eachother. The package manager should do the
6 > right thing.
7
8 It doesn't. See freetype which requires >=fontconfig-2.3 at runtime
9 which in turn requires freetype at runtime. Bug #179736.
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: cyclic dependency Vlastimil Babka <caster@g.o>