On May 4 09:05, Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) wrote: > 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.
In theory yes. It just won't hurt to have a dependency checker in setup at one point, methinks. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc.
