Ludovic Courtès (2015-12-30 18:51 +0300) wrote: > Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> skribis: [...] >> Originally Fabian sent a patch for separate "xaos.scm" file. Then >> Andreas suggested to move it to "maths.scm". But this will lead to the >> mentioned circularity: >> (gnu packages image) already uses (gnu packages maths) >> and after this patch: >> (gnu packages maths) will use (gnu packages image). >> >> Is it OK to leave it like this, or should 'xaos' be left in a >> separate file? > > It’s OK to leave it as is. > > Module circularity are not a problem, unless there are circular > *top-level* references.
Great! Though I believe it's preferable to avoid module circularities if possible, right? > That is, if maths.scm does, say: > > (define foo libpng) > > and image.scm does: > > (define bar lapack) > > then we have a problem. Thanks for the explanation! -- Alex
