On 29/09/2017 23:39, Steven Penny wrote: > On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote: >> For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in >> setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves! > > It is the job of the package manager to detect and avoid such loops. > No database > is perfect - it is up to the good programmer to account for an deal > with problem > data > >
Thanks for the clarification. Okay. Once I've written some code to unpick which packages are erroneously creating the loops I'll report back. Next question - :-) - should I report here or in cygwin-apps? At the risk of getting a SHTDI response, perhaps part of the release process for setup.ini should include a topological sort on '@ package'/'requires: package ...' pairs to flag up such issues? :-D -- Sam Edge -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
