Re: [arch-general] circular self-dependency removing evolution-data-server

On Mon, Jan 07, 2019 at 10:28:04 -0500, Genes Lists via arch-general wrote:

What am I doing wrong?

# pacman -R evolution-data-server checking dependencies... error: failed to prepare transaction (could not satisfy dependencies) :: evolution: removing evolution-data-server breaks dependency 'evolution-data-server' :: folks: removing evolution-data-server breaks dependency 'evolution-data-server'

# pacman -Q pacman evolution-data-server pacman 5.1.2-2 evolution-data-server 3.30.4-1

That is not a circular dependency. Pacman is telling you that evolution and folks depend on evolution-data-server, so if it were to remove the latter, it would break the dependency for evolution and folks. Best, Tinu