On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 12:43:19AM +0100, Henning Glawe wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 01:17:38AM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > One things, if I've understood things correctly, is that it is not > > possible to reliably know how they're going to be removed -- dpkg will > > break the circle in a random place and this may or may not result in > > the problems occur when apt processes "long" lists of packages, and more > specifically in the 'configure' stage. > dpkg has only partly to do with this; the problem is in APT and the way it > controls dpkg: due to a limited command line length, apt can only call dpkg > with a certain number of packages on the same time. > dpkg can handle circular dependencies fine as long as both 'ends' are fed in > at the same time. > but, at least the last time I checked the apt source, apt doesn't check > for this condition when splitting the to-be-configured list and passing these > chunks to dpkg.
Shouldn't apt be fixed rather than changing other packages, then? Hamish -- Hamish Moffatt VK3SB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
