On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 07:16:18PM +0100, Thomas Bächler wrote: > 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. > >
Fixed in SVN.
