On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:01:22 +0200, Christian Perrier [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
install time are indeed buggy, but I see no indication that the
jihad against circular dependencies is making any such
distinctions.
Is the word jihad meant to mean holy, and aggressive, war to
spread out a
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:18:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
One can appreciate work done to reduce un-needed circular
dependencies without bying the cool aid that all circular
dependencies are bad and must be eliminated at all costs.
I appreciate the former, I think
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 07:01:22AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote:
install time are indeed buggy, but I see no indication that the jihad
against circular dependencies is making any such distinctions.
It that's the case, I'm not sure this is the best way to make the
point. I'm actually
Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Ian Jackson]
The only argument I've heard against circular dependencies as a
general rule is that they can trigger a particularly stupid (and
probably not very
I do think that there is a whift of dogma around the current
crusade against all circular dependencies, whther or not the
installation phase actually cares about the dependency or not. Oh
dear -- have I now offended all Christians?
Well, dunno...:-)
Seriously speaking, I think
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:18:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I appreciate the work done by Bill on that issue and I currently do
not have the feeling that it is run with the intents you seem to put
in the word jihad.
One can appreciate work done to reduce un-needed circular
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:43:34 -0700, Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 02:18:44AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
I appreciate the work done by Bill on that issue and I currently
do not have the feeling that it is run with the intents you seem
to put in the word
[Ian Jackson]
The only argument I've heard against circular dependencies as a
general rule is that they can trigger a particularly stupid (and
probably not very hard to fix) bug in apt,
You seem to have missed the argument that packages with circular
dependencies are impossible to install and
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Ian Jackson]
The only argument I've heard against circular dependencies as a
general rule is that they can trigger a particularly stupid (and
probably not very hard to fix) bug in apt,
You seem to have missed the argument that packages
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Ian Jackson]
The only argument I've heard against circular dependencies as a
general rule is that they can trigger a particularly stupid (and
probably not very hard to fix) bug in apt,
You seem to
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Frank Küster wrote:
Don Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
[Ian Jackson]
The only argument I've heard against circular dependencies as a
general rule is that they can trigger a particularly stupid (and
probably not
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 09:30:33 +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
[Ian Jackson]
The only argument I've heard against circular dependencies as a
general rule is that they can trigger a particularly stupid (and
probably not very hard to fix) bug in apt,
You seem to have missed
install time are indeed buggy, but I see no indication that the jihad
against circular dependencies is making any such distinctions.
Is the word jihad meant to mean holy, and aggressive, war to spread
out a religion here?
I recently had an argument with another maintainer who also used tha
Bill Allombert writes (Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 6):
Thanks to your collective effort, the number of circular dependencies in
Debian has halved since the begining of the year.
... but as previously discussed there is nothing wrong with circular
dependencies. (Although
Hello Debian developers,
Thanks to your collective effort, the number of circular dependencies in
Debian has halved since the begining of the year.
Here the lists of packages involved in circular dependencies listed by
maintainers.
This list is also available at
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