[PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version
Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)
BBuchbinder@niaid.nih.gov
Wed May 4 13:05:00 GMT 2005
At Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 3 21:49, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> The other potential solution would be to attempt to uninstall the
>> packages in dependency-sorted order, but that might get awkward in
>> the case of circular dependencies.
>
> See my previous posting: Circular dependencies are bugs, right?
> Creating a dependency tree and complaining about circular dependencies
> in setup would be nice, though.
>
> Corinna
As you pointed out earlier, circular dependencies can be considered bugs in
the setup.hint files. Shouldn't they be caught and fixed when setup.ini is
being made? Then setup/Brian, which/who has enough to do, wouldn't have to
worry about it.
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