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Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 5



Le mercredi 26 juillet 2006 à 16:35 -0600, Bruce Sass a écrit :
> > 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?
> 
> Sure, but an even better thing would be to fix libapt.

It is not possible to fix it in a reliable manner. Reliable meaning,
leading to reproducible behaviour. Furthermore, it would be extremely
CPU consuming, as this is a NP-hard problem.
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