From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.
Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 09:05:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6ba668a5-8180-74d8-52df-c14add756f34@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <59cecb88.c1d4ca0a.53569.24bf@mx.google.com>
On 30/09/2017 00:39, Steven Penny wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote:
>> For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in
>> setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves!
>
> It is the job of the package manager to detect and avoid such loops. No
> database
> is perfect - it is up to the good programmer to account for an deal with
> problem
> data
>
some dependency loop are real as some packages
have cross dependency:
$ cygcheck cygMagickCore-6.Q16-5.dll | grep auto
E:\cygwin64\bin\cygautotrace-3.dll
$ cygcheck cygautotrace-3.dll |grep Q16
E:\cygwin64\bin\cygMagickCore-6.Q16-5.dll
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-09-30 8:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-09-29 22:39 Sam Edge (Cygwin)
2017-09-29 23:54 ` Steven Penny
2017-09-30 8:43 ` Sam Edge (Cygwin)
2017-09-30 9:05 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2017-09-30 2:34 ` Doug Henderson
2017-09-30 7:57 ` Steven Penny
2017-09-30 10:57 ` Andrey Repin
2017-09-30 11:35 ` Sam Edge
2017-09-30 11:51 ` Andrey Repin
2017-09-30 13:28 ` Sam Edge
2017-10-02 13:25 ` Jon Turney
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