Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Jul 18, 1998 at 04:00:27PM +0100, James Troup wrote: > > It makes more sense for the symlink to exist. The /usr/doc/e-themes > > directory would be a waste of inodes. > > No it would not not. A symlink and gratuitous dependency for the sake > of ``saving some inodes'' *IS* broken. You d

Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread Shaleh
You know Manoj that makes sense. E-docs is created. I will have new Imlib, E, and maybe Fnlib up tonight around 2am EST. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Shaleh" == Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Shaleh> Martin Bialasinski wrote: >> How about a E-docs package? Shaleh> I could do this. It just seemed wasteful. The docs only Shaleh> make sense if E is installed. You may be right in most cases, but there are exceptions. I

Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread Shaleh
Ok, then. I will create the necessary dir. Just seems that we should have a better way of dealing with this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread James Troup
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It makes more sense for the symlink to exist. The /usr/doc/e-themes > directory would be a waste of inodes. No it would not not. A symlink and gratuitous dependency for the sake of ``saving some inodes'' *IS* broken. You do not understand or are ignoring th

Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread Shaleh
James Troup wrote: > a) circular dependencies do *not* cause problems; dpkg, dselect (& >presumably apt) handle them just fine. The only thing that might >not is users. > Not pretty though (-: > b) A dependency for the sake of nothing more than a /usr/doc/ symlink >is broken. I sugg

Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread James Troup
Shaleh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > With the new Enlightenment package I have a small snag. I have the > main E package w/ docs and the E binary. I then have an > enlightenment-theme package. E depends on e-theme. E-theme > contains a /usr/doc symlink to E. So e-theme *should* depend (it > r

Re: circular depends: problem

1998-07-18 Thread Shaleh
Martin Bialasinski wrote: > How about a E-docs package? I could do this. It just seemed wasteful. The docs only make sense if E is installed. I linked the E-themes' usr/docs/ to E because there is no documentation that makes sense for the themes pacakge. Policy states I MUST have a usr/doc --