On Thu, Aug 05, 1999 at 01:10:35PM -0400, Johnie Ingram wrote: > Ian> What does dpkg do in the case of circular dependencies? > > It dies a horrible, violent death
No it does not. > -- see Bugs 22999, 23611, 23906, > 24626, 24690, 24923, 26084, 29901, 34136, 34174, 34287, 38155, 38288, > 38378, 38381, 38393, 38754, 39204, 39275, 41611, and of course 41808. These bugs manifest themselves in certain special situations (either a self-dependency or a dependency cycle involving a virtual package). Most of the time dependency cycles are OK. -- %%% Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho % [EMAIL PROTECTED] % http://www.iki.fi/gaia/ %%% "... memory leaks are quite acceptable in many applications ..." (Bjarne Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, page 220)