On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:22 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > Is there a policy on whether circular build dependencies are permitted > or not? The nearest I can find is this (obsolete?) page: > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/PackagesNeedingBootstrap > > MinGW has one hard circular dependency which will require rel-eng > cooperation to build first time[1], but we also have another one which > is only a "nice to have" (mingw32-iconv & mingw32-gettext[2]). I don't think there's any strict policy. It's polite to mark the packages needing special handling during bootstrap somehow. In Mesa I just note at the top of the specfile that the -demos subpackage needs to be excluded on the way up (it needs libglut, which you can't build until you've built a libGL, which the main Mesa package provides...) - ajax
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