Re: Getting rid of circular dependencies, stage 4
On Wed, 10 May 2006 14:24:58 -0400, James Vega <jamessan@jamessan.com> said:
> On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 01:41:56PM -0400, Hubert Chan wrote:
>> alsaplayer-common contains the main alsaplayer binary
>> (/usr/bin/alsaplayer), which does not function without an
>> alsaplayer-output and alsaplayer-input plugin. So yes, it really
>> does depend on these. (I would have named alsaplayer-common
>> something different -- maybe alsaplayer-bin, or just alsaplayer, but
>> that was what it was called when I inherited it.)
> Ah, yes, I didn't take a look at the packages as well as I should
> have. Taking a look at the package contents, it seems like changing
> the alsaplayer-(output|input) variants to Recommending
> alsaplayer-common would work fine.
Ah, looking at the changlogs, those dependencies were added because of
Bug #185814 -- alsaplayer-common only works with alsaplayer plugins from
the same version. Ugh. Yeah, I'll try to figure out how to fix this
properly.
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