On 24-Jul-06, 17:32 (CDT), Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Steve Greenland wrote:
> > This really seems like something that while they may, very occasionally,
> > be required, are mostly unnecessary and often misused.
>
> Rather, I'd characterise it as a feature that is necessary for any
> general-purpose depencency-based system to be complete[1], which is
> totally safe and does not adversely affect any aspect of the system
> if some simple rules are followed
What are those rules?
Also, note that I did NOT suggest circular dependencies be forbidden,
just discouraged. I agree that they *can* be useful. I just think
they're overused. I don't think foo-data should depend on foo, for much
the same reason glibc shouldn't depend on ls.
Steve
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system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
world. -- seen on the net
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