On Mon, Mar 05, 2018 at 01:56:09PM +0530, Pirate Praveen wrote: > Control: severity -1 normal > > On ഞായര് 04 മാർച്ച് 2018 01:57 വൈകു, Julien Puydt wrote: > > It is really depending on grunt -- but doesn't, so it's possible to > > install the package in a broken state. > > I think that is expected. node-grunt-cli is a dependency of grunt (not > the other way around). I don't think adding a circular dependency is > useful here.
Often the best available option in such cases is to have a recommends in the other direction. With recommends being installed by default this behaves nearly like a dependency while avoiding having an actual circular dependency. cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed