Re: [gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Sun, 5 Feb 2006 20:22:05 -0500 Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: | > Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon | > themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for | > example, DEPEN

Re: [gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 05 February 2006 17:11, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon > themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for > example, DEPENDs upon || ( itself another-compiler ). Sometimes, > however, it's the result of ecl

[gentoo-dev] Self-circular dependencies

2006-02-05 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
Another not-so-uncommon issue that crops up: packages DEPENDing upon themselves. Sometimes this is legit -- one of the Ada compilers, for example, DEPENDs upon || ( itself another-compiler ). Sometimes, however, it's the result of eclass screwups. Typical example: you're coding a foo.eclass, that