On Fri, Nov 16, 2007 at 11:09:13AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Nov 16, 2007 6:04 AM, Thomas Bächler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Roman Kyrylych schrieb:
> > >> 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
> >
> > This cyclic dependency cannot be avoided: bash needs glibc to be
> > executed, but glibc needs bash in its post_install.
> 
> I do know one way to resolve this.... we can ship something like dash
> for /bin/sh _only_ and depend on that... sounds like a headache, but
> it'd work

Wouldn't that mean that anything that used /bin/sh as its interpreter would
have to be valid dash script and not the bash script that we expected?

Jason

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