[arch-general] how to handle dependency cycle?

[Allan McRae]

On 07/09/12 03:02, Krzysztof Warzecha wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I found dependency cycle in extra:
> 
> libjpeg -> nasm (makedepends)
> nasm -> ghostscript (makedepends)
> ghostscript -> libjpg (depends)
> 
> check_package.py script (one that sends Integrity Check to
> arch-dev-public) does not treat this as dependency cycle, but clearly
> I can't build one package without at least one another.
> 
> Assuming I have no packages from extra, how do I handle this? In this
> case I could just drop ghostscript from nasm and everything will work
> (well, I hope so). This is just bug?

It is probably not a bug.   You can drop ghostscript from nasm
makedepends, build the rest then rebuild nasm.

Allan