Thanks, I fixed the circular dependency. It should show up on mirrors within 24 hours.
Harold
Yaakov S wrote:
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Something I came across regarding the xfig package:
xfig-base requires xfig-lib and xfig-lib requires xfig-base. Sounds at first like it make sense, but it leads to a very interesting problem: this makes it very difficult to uninstall.
Actually it reminds me of an old arcade game, where a head would pop up in one place, and when you go to hit it, it would appear somewhere else, ~ etc. If xfig-base and xfig-lib are both installed (which due to their inter-dependency they would be) and you first select one to uninstall. When you go to choose the other for uninstall, first you must click-thru Reinstall (Keep, Reinstall, Uninstall ...) which then triggers the first to Keep. You can go back and forth like this for a while until you feel like you're playing that game again.
I did find one work-around by accident, although I forgot exactly how I did it. It involves an interrupted (un)install of one of the two, followed by another run of setup.exe which can then uninstall both.
I'm sure xfig is a nice package, but I don't see a need for anyone to be stuck with it. :-)
Anyway, I hope this helps.
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