Am 12.03.2014 06:32, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi:
On 02/24/2014 03:56 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote:
Right now, we have a problem with cyclic dependencies in core: systemd requires libblkid and libuuid (systemd-udevd) and util-linux requires libudev (findmnt, and soon uuidd [1]).
I don't like this situation and currently it is revoled by adding systemd as optdepend to util-linux. This has the side effect that in a chroot with only certain packages installed, one has to explicitly install systemd to get findmnt working. Since I've run into this situation and cyclic deps are bad, I propose the following:
Split both util-linux and systemd into libutil-linux/util-linux and libsystemd/systemd. Then we could have both util-linux and systemd depend on both libsystemd and libutil-linux.
[1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg08699.html
We also have another set when installing {base} group:
warning: util-linux will be installed before its coreutils dependency warning: util-linux will be installed before its pam dependency warning: shadow will be installed before its pam dependency
New depends introduce error during base installation, libutil-linux needs coreutils first else no install is found. I cannot get coreutils installed before util-linux so this is really annoying. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa@archlinux.org