2007/11/16, Xavier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 06:15:09PM +0200, Roman Kyrylych wrote: > > 2007/11/1, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Forwarding to the dev list in case people don't read the arch list. > > > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > > From: Mister Dobalina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > Date: Nov 1, 2007 10:27 AM > > > Subject: [arch] circular dependence in core > > > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <[email protected]> > > > > > > > > > coreutils 6.9-3 -> depends on bash > > > > > > bash 3.2.025-1 -> depends on readline>=5.2 > > > > > > readline 5.2-4 -> depends on ncurses > > > > > > ncurses 5.6-4 -> depends on coreutils -> oops! > > > > > > > This was caused by this commit: > > http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/ncurses/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25&cvsroot=Core&only_with_tag=CURRENT > > I think we should revert it (because dependencies of other packages > > are fine and make more sense). > > > > With the recent big rebuild in testing, pacman 3.1 detected a dependency > cycle again, which reminded me of this mail. > The cycle wasn't only caused by the commit above, because there was already > another cycle there before. > > bash 3.2.025-2 -> depends on readline>=5.2 > readline 5.2-5 -> depends on ncurses > ncurses 5.6-6 -> depends on glibc > glibc 2.7-7 -> depends on bash -> oops! > > But it looks like there are other ones as well. >
I'd say we remove glibc dependency from ncurses or bash dependency from glibc. :-/ /me scratches his head -- Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич) _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
