Can we please get a new policy that forbids the predepends conflicts loop found in the newest perl packages? These sorts of loops require that you remove a package (probably using a --force option) and then install the remaining two in the correct order. This sort of loop really makes a mess of an installation.
In the perl case (the only case right now) the reason for the pre-depend was to prevent upgrading perl from breaking ld.so due to an incorrect installation ordering. I would submit that ld.so is broken for requiring a non-essential package for it's installation. This is going to cause alot of headaches for a bo -> hamm upgrade, and I would rather not have a precedent of allowing this really hard to deal with behaviour. Thanks, Jason
