package dependency as applied math (was: Re: tape deity)
Jason Gunthorpe writes:
> ...you may -NEVER- have predepends looping or predepends+depends looping
> which means it is always possible to create an order where all
> dependandants (and their dependants) of all predepends come before the
> predepend.
Has anyone attempted a mathematical model of the general dependency
problem? It looks like a graph theory problem; perhaps there is already a
general solution.
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John Hasler
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