2007/10/24, Hisham Muhammad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/22/07, Jonas Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've just realized that my recent commits created (at least) one new > > dependency loop: GTK+ -> Cairo -> LibRSVG -> GTK+ > > How shold we handle these loops? By declaring LibRSVG as optional > > dependency for Cairo we can weaken the loop, but since we don't > > support such flags yet... > > The problem exists primarily for Freshen and cyclic graphs, but > > there's a problem with Compile as one have to bulid in the right order > > (and rebuild Cairo once LibRSVG is built). It's only a annoyance with > > InstallPackage as the user will get the same question twice. > > How should we handle these cyclic dependencies? > > Is it really necessary for Cairo to depend on LibRSVG? > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/general/librsvg.html > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/gtk2.html > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/svn/x/cairo.html > No, it's an optional dependency. I guess we can drop it in the meantime (while looking for a solution), but I do think we should consider find a solution as this problem may occur again (I know that we already have this problem with Xorg <-> DBus).
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