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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps
Date: Fri, 05 Mar 2010 03:18:43
Message-Id: 877hprpibg.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Remove cups from default profile to solve circular deps by Richard Freeman
1 Richard Freeman <rich0@g.o> writes:
2
3 > I think that is separate from the circular dependency issue. As long
4 > as we have an unresolved circular dependency I think cups should be
5 > off the list. However, I'd be the first to agree that this is a
6 > short-term solution.
7 >
8 > The problem is that we only have two long-term solutions so far:
9 >
10 > 1. A smarter package manager that can work through these dependencies
11 > automatically.
12 >
13 > 2. Splitting packages like poppler that have these issues.
14
15 Is there not a third, maybe obvious, solution to circular dependencies
16 on initial install?
17
18 3. Include one or both of the packages in the stage tarball.

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