On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 06:58:35PM +0200, Miroslav Lichvar wrote: > I've noticed that we have quite a lot of dependency loops in > repositories. The current i386 rawhide has 354 packages which are part > of one or more loops. > > Is that ok? I've always thought it's something that should be avoided > as it makes life harder for rpm, yum and users trying to manually > install or remove rpms. I even remember few incidents where a loop > caused serious troubles when installing packages with scriptlets. Currently MinGW has an unavoidable dependency loop, requiring you to start with a binary package. (Eventually you can build everything from source). Such loops are unavoidable where you have any sort of bootstrapping of compilers. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
