Re: self-depending packages
Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <ajk@debian.org> schrieb:
> On 20050227T214242+0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote:
>> My understanding is that a self-depending package must be configured
>> before it can be configured, which makes it unconfigurable, and hence
>> uninstallable. And I think the same reasoning can be applied to
>> circular dependencies. But Loic disagrees.
>
> Self-dependencies are harmless but ugly. Circular dependencies are
> sometimes (though very seldom) necessary
Well, but why should a self-dependency be ever necessary? And how can I
possibly install a package that was never installed previously if it
depends on itself? It seems to me as if a Conflicts with versions older
than that depended-upon version would be the right thing to do, but not
in the library, but in the packages depending upon it.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer
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