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Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 3



On Friday 13 January 2006 16:53, you wrote:
> Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch> writes:
> > From a graph algorithm point of view, if I'm not very mistaken,
> > dependencies being guaranteed to be a directed graph instead of a
> > generic graph should allow some simplifications/efficiency
> > improvements in apt and other tools, too.
>
> For the record, dependencies are a directed graph by nature.
>
> Preventing circular dependencies will get you a directed acyclic graph
> (DAG) which is, IMHO, easier to handle.

Arrgh.  Of course, just a confusion of terms.

cheers
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