Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

[Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>]

Goswin von Brederlow <brederlo@informatik.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:

> Except that libapt does NOT correctly handle dependency loops and can
> split them between dpkg calls causing install failures.
> 
> The more circular depends there are the more likely such a failure
> becomes. So wouldn't it be a good thing to remove all the circular
> depends that are not neccessary?

Wouldn't it be a better thing to fix the bug and have deterministic 
software?

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