RE: .deb dependancy hell

From: Rosenstrauch, David (david.rosenstrauch_at_csfb.com)
Date: 01/28/04

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Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 21:35:51 -0000

    Whoops - my apologies, then. I didn't read your message carefully enough.

    DR

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: Richard Hoskins [mailto:rhos@adelphia.net]
    > Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2004 4:25 PM
    > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
    > Subject: Re: .deb dependancy hell
    >
    >
    > "Rosenstrauch, David" <david.rosenstrauch@csfb.com> writes:
    >
    > > There's rarely (if ever) a circular dependency like that. What
    > > you'll normally see is that package A needs package B, and package C
    > > needs package B. Thus package B is usually a shared
    > > component/library that is used by many other apps.
    >
    > It was a circular dependency that prompted my original article.
    > libgphoto2-port0 depends on libgphoto2-2, and libgphoto2-2 depends on
    > libgphoto2-port0. A needs B, and B needs A. You can't have A OR B.
    > You need A AND B, no matter what you are using them for, or what other
    > dependencies exist.
    >
    > Many people replied with ways around this, but the dependency exists,
    > and is circular.
    >
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