Am 12.03.2014 17:21, schrieb Tobias Powalowski: > Am 12.03.2014 06:32, schrieb Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi: >> On 02/24/2014 03:56 PM, Thomas Bächler wrote: >>> Right now, we have a problem with cyclic dependencies in core: systemd >>> requires libblkid and libuuid (systemd-udevd) and util-linux requires >>> libudev (findmnt, and soon uuidd [1]). >>> >>> I don't like this situation and currently it is revoled by adding >>> systemd as optdepend to util-linux. This has the side effect that in a >>> chroot with only certain packages installed, one has to explicitly >>> install systemd to get findmnt working. Since I've run into this >>> situation and cyclic deps are bad, I propose the following: >>> >>> Split both util-linux and systemd into libutil-linux/util-linux and >>> libsystemd/systemd. Then we could have both util-linux and systemd >>> depend on both libsystemd and libutil-linux. >>> >>> [1] http://www.spinics.net/lists/util-linux-ng/msg08699.html >>> >> We also have another set when installing {base} group: >> >> warning: util-linux will be installed before its coreutils dependency >> warning: util-linux will be installed before its pam dependency >> warning: shadow will be installed before its pam dependency >> >> > New depends introduce error during base installation, > libutil-linux needs coreutils first else no install is found. > > I cannot get coreutils installed before util-linux so this is really > annoying.
That's a packaging mistake: the install= should only be in util-linux, not libutil-linux.
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