[arch-dev-public] Fwd: [arch] circular dependence in core

[Tobias Powalowski]

Am Donnerstag, 1. November 2007 schrieb Dan McGee:
> On 11/1/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 2007/11/1, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> > > Forwarding to the dev list in case people don't read the arch list.
> > >
> > > ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> > > From: Mister Dobalina <reebydobalina at yahoo.ca>
> > > Date: Nov 1, 2007 10:27 AM
> > > Subject: [arch] circular dependence in core
> > > To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch at archlinux.org>
> > >
> > >
> > > coreutils 6.9-3 -> depends on bash
> > >
> > > bash 3.2.025-1 -> depends on readline>=5.2
> > >
> > > readline 5.2-4 -> depends on ncurses
> > >
> > > ncurses 5.6-4 -> depends on coreutils -> oops!
> >
> > This was casused by this commit:
> > http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/ncurses/PKGBUILD.diff?r
> >1=1.24&r2=1.25&cvsroot=Core&only_with_tag=CURRENT I think we should revert
> > it (because dependencies of other packages are fine and make more sense).
>
> I made this change because ncurses has an install script, and without
> coreutils installed it may fail to execute if you are doing a new
> chroot install. Any thoughts when this kind of thing comes up? Ideally
> we use as few install scripts as possible in core/base so we don't
> have to worry about this.
>
> -Dan
>
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tpowa

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Tobias Powalowski
Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa)
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