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

[Dan McGee]

On 11/1/07, Roman Kyrylych <roman.kyrylych at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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).

I made this change because ncurses has an install script, and without
coreutils installed it may fail to execute if you are doing a new
chroot install. Any thoughts when this kind of thing comes up? Ideally
we use as few install scripts as possible in core/base so we don't
have to worry about this.

-Dan