On 2011-09-04 15:42, Vincent Danjean wrote: > On 04/09/2011 14:44, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > While I also would want Debian to eventually get rid of circular > > dependencies, I am not sure about (the value of) the benefits. > > > > For example, even by default dependency resolvers have to consider > > Depends-Recommends loops. And if the user has selected to install Suggests > > by default (yeah, yeah, mostly theoretic-only but still possible), there > > will be a lot of Depends-Suggests or Recommends-Suggests loops. > > Depends-Recommends and Depends-Suggests loops (and even more > Recommends-Suggests loops) are totally different than Depends-Depends loop. > If A depends on B, configuration of A will be done after B >[...]
You are talking about dpkg action sequencer. The mail I answered to and my mail were talking about dependency resolver. Yes, dpkg action sequencer will definitely benefit from less Depends-Depends. > Waiting more times will not decrease the number of releases to wait > before dropping the relevant parts of the code. So, in my point of view, > the sooner, the better. Agreed. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110904145629.GB16029@r500-debian