On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:20:41PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote: >On Aug 21 11:12, Charles Wilson wrote: >> Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >> > To rephrase: I think it is a bad idea to remove dependencies from >> > _update-info-dir since so many things rely on it. >> >> Unless: >> >> 1) all of _update-info-dir's dependencies are already satisfied by the >> Base category >> >> or >> >> 2) we carefully map the dependency chains of the basic system-setup >> packages (cygwin, base-*, a few more?) and deliberately exclude them >> from getting _update-info-dir added to their dependency list. >> >> or >> >> 3) somehow add a priority scheme to postinstall scripts, so that in >> the event of a cycle, setup "starts" traversing the dependency loop at >> the package with the highest priority. >> >> In order of least effort to most, I'd vote #1... > >Full ACK.
If only this was a democracy. I've made the change I mentioned. Neither bash nor texinfo rely on _update-info-dir. cgf
