Re: Circular dependencies
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote:
> So, it has been repeated over and over that circular dependencies
> are bad form, maybe even bugs. Still, there are packages for which
> they seem to be the only reasonable choice, like liferea-gtkhtml,
> completely useless without liferea, which in turn depends on
> liferea-gtkhtml | liferea-xulrunner because it is completely useless
> without (at least) one of them.
>
> So, does one break the no-circular-dependencies rule here?
There isn't such a rule. Broken circular dependencies are wrong, and
needless ones should be fixed, but needed ones are definetly not a
bug.
> Get one of the packages to Recommend: the other? Downgrade and
> wontfix the bug report (#386685) with a link to the thread on
> -devel? Close it?
Either downgrade and wontfix, or close it. Your choice.
Don Armstrong
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