Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > On 20050227T214242+0100, Nicolas Boullis wrote: >> My understanding is that a self-depending package must be configured >> before it can be configured, which makes it unconfigurable, and hence >> uninstallable. And I think the same reasoning can be applied to >> circular dependencies. But Loic disagrees. > > Self-dependencies are harmless but ugly. Circular dependencies are > sometimes (though very seldom) necessary
Well, but why should a self-dependency be ever necessary? And how can I possibly install a package that was never installed previously if it depends on itself? It seems to me as if a Conflicts with versions older than that depended-upon version would be the right thing to do, but not in the library, but in the packages depending upon it. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich Debian Developer