On Thu, 02 Nov 2006, Luis Rodrigo Gallardo Cruz wrote: > So, it has been repeated over and over that circular dependencies > are bad form, maybe even bugs. Still, there are packages for which > they seem to be the only reasonable choice, like liferea-gtkhtml, > completely useless without liferea, which in turn depends on > liferea-gtkhtml | liferea-xulrunner because it is completely useless > without (at least) one of them. > > So, does one break the no-circular-dependencies rule here?
There isn't such a rule. Broken circular dependencies are wrong, and needless ones should be fixed, but needed ones are definetly not a bug. > Get one of the packages to Recommend: the other? Downgrade and > wontfix the bug report (#386685) with a link to the thread on > -devel? Close it? Either downgrade and wontfix, or close it. Your choice. Don Armstrong -- "For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. For those who do not, none is possible." http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
