On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 04:48:21PM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > I assume that cyclic Build-Depends are acceptable in Debian. It would > > be difficult if they weren't. > > For essential packages, build-essential and kernels (not in the sense > one build-depends on a kernel, but one requires a working kernel before > running the build), it's understandable. For everything else, I consider > that quite wierd.
There are at least half a dozen such loops in Debian already, outside build-essential. Inevitable consequence of packages built with a decent set of features. Bootstrapping involves a bit of cross-compiling and a bit of manual scamming. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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