On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 16:39, Matthias Saou wrote: > Now... I'm posting here before bugzilla'ing this since I'd like to know > what the general opinion is regarding packages requiring some of their own > sub-packages like this. I really think it should be avoided since there are > some side-effects like this one that can arise. Agreed. But in case a dependency "loop" like this between some packages is not avoidable (in general, not in this particular case) and the order in which they are installed inside one transaction matters, one of them should use "PreReq" and the other "Requires" in order to break the loop in predictable fashion (== PreReq "wins"; the package containing it will be installed last). That's what I've heard the difference between PreReq and Requires is, anyway.
