Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5

[Steve Greenland <steveg@moregruel.net>]

On 24-Jul-06, 17:18 (CDT), Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote: 
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> > Sure, it allows some one to install foo-data without the program that
> > uses it? So what? It's unlikely to happen by accident, and annoying to
> > those doing it intentionally. (Just like those foo-docs that depend on
> > foo, although they are mostly fixed, now.)
> 
> I don't buy the often-made argument that foo-data packages are generally
> useful to install just to look at the beautiful data. 

I didn't claim it's generally useful; I claim that the use of circular
dependencies prevents such installs for no good reason.

Steve



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