Re: Bug#42052: PROPOSAL] /var/mail and /var/spool/mail
On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 01:10:35PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote:
> Ian> What does dpkg do in the case of circular dependencies?
>
> It dies a horrible, violent death
No it does not.
> -- see Bugs 22999, 23611, 23906,
> 24626, 24690, 24923, 26084, 29901, 34136, 34174, 34287, 38155, 38288,
> 38378, 38381, 38393, 38754, 39204, 39275, 41611, and of course 41808.
These bugs manifest themselves in certain special situations (either
a self-dependency or a dependency cycle involving a virtual package).
Most of the time dependency cycles are OK.
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