Re: Bug#140183: aspell does install or depend on any languages
On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 05:10:55PM -0500, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
> On Fri, 2002-03-29 at 07:18, Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> > anyway Depends breaks even more because dictionary packages already
> > depend on libaspell10, making libaspell10 depending on any dictionary
> > makes a loop in dependencies. please look at bugs #126594, #131290 and
> > aspell changelog.
>
> Quite unfortunate that dependencies only are for configuration, not to
> force alongside installation.
The submitter of bug #131290 is mistaken: dependency loops are not a
bug. People using dpkg directly should know that they need to give dpkg
both packages on the same command line when there's a dependency loop.
There is some mild confusion about which postinst gets run first in the
case of a dependency loop, but dpkg will generally do something
sensible.
Dependency loops may not be particularly elegant, but in cases where
they're the best possible alternative I don't think package maintainers
should shy away from using them.
--
Colin Watson [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
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