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On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:54:21 -0500 Chris Gianelloni |
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<wolf31o2@g.o> wrote: |
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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 |
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| > ways (as someone else here pointed out) because you'd have a |
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| > circular dependency...kernel requires glx, but glx requires kernel |
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| > which requires glx...and around we go. |
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| Why can't both RDEPEND on the other? This works perfectly fine for |
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| many 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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It only works right now because of a coincidence in how Portage's dep |
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resolver (doesn't) work. |
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Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (King of all Londinium) |
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Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org |
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