On Tue, 3 May 2005, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 3 21:49, Max Bowsher wrote:
> > The other potential solution would be to attempt to uninstall the packages
> > in dependency-sorted order, but that might get awkward in the case of
> > circular dependencies.
>
> See my previous posting: Circular dependencies are bugs, right?
> Creating a dependency tree and complaining about circular dependencies
> in setup would be nice, though.
Circular dependencies are not bugs. Circular dependencies just mean that
the packages are interdependent -- each requires the other's
functionality. Besides, installation dependencies aren't quire the same
as uninstallation dependencies. I've posted on this topic before -- I'll
try to dig up the exact URL later.
Igor
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