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Re: perl and perl-modules; reflexive dependencies vs. archive bloat



Le vendredi 23 octobre 2009 à 14:25 -0700, Don Armstrong a écrit : 
> Because this is a common situtation, where there is architecture
> independent data (of varying sizes) which is interdependent on
> architecture specific code of a particular version, reflexive
> dependencies are necessary.[2]

> 3: Specifically, where Package A Depends on (B=1), and Package B
> Depends on A; A and B are from the same source, B is architecture
> independent, and does not require configuration.

In the general case, B doesn’t need to depend on A. So this is not a
problem for that many packages.



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