Josselin Mouette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Le mercredi 26 juillet 2006 à 16:35 -0600, Bruce Sass a écrit : >> > The more circular depends there are the more likely such a failure >> > becomes. So wouldn't it be a good thing to remove all the circular >> > depends that are not neccessary? >> >> Sure, but an even better thing would be to fix libapt. > > It is not possible to fix it in a reliable manner. Reliable meaning, > leading to reproducible behaviour. Furthermore, it would be extremely > CPU consuming, as this is a NP-hard problem.
No harder than all the other apt operations are already. install, upgrade, dist-upgrade are all already NP-hard. And dpkg does handle cycles correctly so why shouldn't apt be able to? I don't buy that argument. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]