At Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On May 3 21:49, Max Bowsher wrote: >> The other potential solution would be to attempt to uninstall the >> packages in dependency-sorted order, but that might get awkward in >> the case of circular dependencies. > > See my previous posting: Circular dependencies are bugs, right? > Creating a dependency tree and complaining about circular dependencies > in setup would be nice, though. > > Corinna
As you pointed out earlier, circular dependencies can be considered bugs in the setup.hint files. Shouldn't they be caught and fixed when setup.ini is being made? Then setup/Brian, which/who has enough to do, wouldn't have to worry about it.
