Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

[Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>]

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 07:54:15 +0200
Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:

> I both cases, the circular dependency would be useful to avoid
> installing the common data without the software. Consequently, when
> you apt-get remove the software, you don't get an orphan data package.

You can then apply same logic to shared libraries to make them depend
on program which uses them to avoid orphan library packages. I think
that aptitude way is better.

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