On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 10:02:34AM +0100, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:

> I believe circular build-dependencies for testsuite needs can - and 
> should be addressed by marking such build-dependencies appropriately, 
> rather than skipping them - for exactly situations like this.

Sure.
 
> Question then what the appropriate way to express cycle-breaking 
> hints... :-)

I believe the way to express this is to annotate the build dependency
with <!nocheck>. (Though build cycles are probably not much of a deal
with arch:all packages in the first place.)
-- 
Niko

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