[arch-dev-public] Fwd: [arch] circular dependence in core

Roman Kyrylych roman.kyrylych at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 12:15:09 EDT 2007


2007/11/1, Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>:
> Forwarding to the dev list in case people don't read the arch list.
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mister Dobalina <reebydobalina at yahoo.ca>
> Date: Nov 1, 2007 10:27 AM
> Subject: [arch] circular dependence in core
> To: General Discusson about Arch Linux <arch at archlinux.org>
>
>
> coreutils 6.9-3 -> depends on bash
>
> bash 3.2.025-1 -> depends on readline>=5.2
>
> readline 5.2-4 -> depends on ncurses
>
> ncurses 5.6-4 -> depends on coreutils -> oops!
>

This was casused by this commit:
http://cvs.archlinux.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/base/ncurses/PKGBUILD.diff?r1=1.24&r2=1.25&cvsroot=Core&only_with_tag=CURRENT
I think we should revert it (because dependencies of other packages
are fine and make more sense).

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Roman Kyrylych (Роман Кирилич)


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