On 27-Jul-06, 06:13 (CDT), Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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.
Dpkg doesn't handle them "correctly". It breaks the cycle arbitrarily,
except it prefers packages without postinstall scripts. This may be
adequate for most (mis-)uses of circular dependencies, but it's not
"correct". Hmmm, "correct" is probably not the right word to use here,
since there is no "correct" answer, per se. "Reproducibly" is what I
mean.
Steve
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