Re: Packages removed from frozen
>>"Marcus" == Marcus Brinkmann <Marcus.Brinkmann@ruhr-uni-bochum.de> writes:
Marcus> For many of the longer cycles, it is only a technical
Marcus> difficulty related to the simple static packaging rules (you
Marcus> can bootstrap by manually building packages without all doc
Marcus> formats first, and later recompile to get the full package).
In these cases I suggest that the doc packages be broken out,
and only the doc package depends on teh binary packages. Voila! no
circular depends.
This was the reason for suggesting that there be a public
investigation before allowing self build depends -- sometimes, you do
not need any.
manoj
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