Re: [RFC] managing dependencies with levels

[Arthur Korn <arthur@korn.ch>]

Thierry Laronde schrieb:
> level of package = max {level of dependencies} + 1

> The install tools simply has to install packages in increasing level
> numbers. All packages having the same level can not, by definition, have any
> circular dependencie, since this will mean that they depend on a package of
> the same level thus that they have at a level of a greater value.

And that's exactly the problem, because dpkg allows circular
dependencies. The following works:

Package: msyslog
Depends: syslog-common

Package: syslog-common
Depends: msyslog

If you try to calculate your "level" for those, you'll deadlock.

ciao, 2ri
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