Sorry to come a bit late in this topic - I wasn't receiving fontconfig bug reports due to a misconfiguration on my side.
As I have already stated in the discussion on debian-devel, I don't think it is possible to remove that circular dependency. Even putting the support binaries in a separate package (say, fontconfig-bin - avoiding to move the configuration files) wouldn't be enough, as applications using libfontconfig1 often become unusable when fc-cache hasn't been run. Thus, having libfontconfig1 installed means you need to have fontconfig installed, and of course fontconfig needs libfontconfig1 to work as support binaries link to it. I don't know of any way to remove circular dependencies in fontconfig, gconf or gnomevfs, as these dependencies all have a meaning. If dpkg is broken, we should fix dpkg, not break packages to fix dpkg's behavior. Regards, -- .''`. Josselin Mouette /\./\ : :' : [EMAIL PROTECTED] `. `' [EMAIL PROTECTED] `- Debian GNU/Linux -- The power of freedom
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