Dependency reciprocity : real world problem with httpd and httpd-suexec

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Sep 7 20:15:30 UTC 2004


Ville Skyttä wrote:

> Agreed.  But in case a dependency "loop" like this between some packages
> is not avoidable

In many cases where foo Requires foo-bar and foo-bar Requires foo, IMO, 
there shouldn't *be* a foo-bar subpackage at all.  One example off the 
top of my head:
openoffice.org
openoffice.org-libs
What's the point of the separate -libs subpkg?

-- Rex





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