On 20050301T195602+0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Well, but why should a self-dependency be ever necessary?
A self-dependency is an oxymoron, since a package cannot be simultaneously unconfigured and configured. For that reason, a self-dependency is always a no-op (as I wrote earlier, it is harmless but ugly). Circular dependencies, however, are sometimes necessary. A good example is the base system, where many of the packages need each other to configure; but that particular case is solved by the essential packages list. In most other cases, circular dependencies can be removed by refactoring the package set. -- Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho, Debian developer http://kaijanaho.info/antti-juhani/blog/en/debian
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