On Sun, Dec 23, 2001 at 07:49:10PM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 08:51:51AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > > > So you can never have two packages that depend on each other? > > > > Correct. > > Isn't there this loop break hack in dpkg to allow for that? Not that > I would suggest having two packages depend on each other... :)
Actually a number of packages already have this. For example, libfoo depending on libfoo-runtime, while libfoo-runtime depends on libfoo. Unfortunately I didn't have the tools to find an example with which to prove Adam wrong, but I do remember a FAQ about such a situation, where people were told to upgrade by installing both packages in one dpkg invocation. Apt also has an algorithm for breaking such cycles. -- Richard Braakman Will write free software for money. See http://www.xs4all.nl/~dark/resume.html
