El 28/09/11 17:13, Goswin von Brederlow escribió:
I disagree. The configure order of packages is something the package
should declare and that should not have to be duplicated in every
bootstrap tool out there even if the order is only relevant for the
initial install.
There is no such thing as "proper configure order" when dealing with
bootstrapping.
Every package in the "Essential: yes" set may depend on any other
package in the same set, so such set is expected to have a lot of
circular dependencies. Making circular dependencies explicit does not
make them less circular, so it would not be an improvement at all to
make them explicit.
We take for granted that a package which is "Essential: yes"
"will always work". If a package which is "Essential: yes" does not work
when it has not been configured for the first time, then it follows that
the meaning of "Essential: yes" should include the fact that it has been
configured at least once in the past, as Colin Watson has pointed out.
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