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On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:40 -0500, Peter wrote: |
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> This is because glx has kernel as a dependency. Can't have it both ways |
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> (as someone else here pointed out) because you'd have a circular |
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> dependency...kernel requires glx, but glx requires kernel which requires |
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> glx...and around we go. |
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Why can't both RDEPEND on the other? This works perfectly fine for many |
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packages in the tree. A circular dependency isn't a bad thing if |
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they're both in RDEPEND, it is when they're both in DEPEND that causes |
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an issue. |
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x86 Architecture Team |
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