On Sun, 8 Feb 2009 15:30:38 +0100
Ward Poelmans <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 15:25, Ciaran McCreesh
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Either the ebuilds are wrong or there're still circular dependencies
> > you're hitting. If Paludis mentions that it's breaking circular
> > deps, even if it then goes on to suggest a possible install order,
> > there's no guarantee that the fix it suggests is correct.
> 
> I'm getting a lot of circular deps (see below). So there is nothing i
> can do about it, except look at which order emerge installs them?
> 
> Maybe a stupid question, but why doesn't emerge have this problem?
> What does it do different so it can find a correct order to emerge?

Portage just doesn't tell you if it has circular deps. It silently
picks some arbitrary order. Unfortunately, in cases where the order
Portage picks happens to almost work, this leads to developers not
realising they have a problem, and so not fixing things.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh

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