On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 01:12:05PM -0500, Mister Dobalina wrote: > This all sounds familiar -- I had some similar > problems with "pacman --root" back in August > > http://archlinux.org/pipermail/pacman-dev/2007-August/009148.html > > and as a result I added a paragraph to the "Talk" > section of the "Install Arch from within another > distro" article in the Wiki > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Talk:Install_Arch_from_within_another_distro > > (see the "Install scriptlets won't run!" entry). > > I'm not a dev or anything, but I think putting > packages which are essentially executables (eg. bash) > in the dependency array of packages which are core > libraries (eg. glibc) just because of post_install > requirements causes more problems than it solves. We > just need to advertise (for example, in the wiki) that > in the rare cases that glibc not depending on bash > causes a problem (eg. pacman --root), you need to > install core twice. > > Maybe there needs to be some sort of basic guidelines > about what is allowed in depends array for core > libraries to try to avoid cyclic dependencies like > these. >
Indeed, that's still the same discussion, I should have mentioned these references. And I agree with everything you said. _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
