Re: Status of circulars dependencies in unstable
On 2011-09-04 15:42, Vincent Danjean wrote:
> On 04/09/2011 14:44, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote:
> > While I also would want Debian to eventually get rid of circular
> > dependencies, I am not sure about (the value of) the benefits.
> >
> > For example, even by default dependency resolvers have to consider
> > Depends-Recommends loops. And if the user has selected to install Suggests
> > by default (yeah, yeah, mostly theoretic-only but still possible), there
> > will be a lot of Depends-Suggests or Recommends-Suggests loops.
>
> Depends-Recommends and Depends-Suggests loops (and even more
> Recommends-Suggests loops) are totally different than Depends-Depends loop.
> If A depends on B, configuration of A will be done after B
>[...]
You are talking about dpkg action sequencer. The mail I answered to and
my mail were talking about dependency resolver.
Yes, dpkg action sequencer will definitely benefit from less Depends-Depends.
> Waiting more times will not decrease the number of releases to wait
> before dropping the relevant parts of the code. So, in my point of view,
> the sooner, the better.
Agreed.
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Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com
C++/Perl developer, Debian Developer
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