Re: Detecting dependency cycles and conflict dependency problems in packages

2001-12-23 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Sat, 22 Dec 2001 01:38:44 +0100 "Nicolas Chauvat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyhow, my pet project for tonight was to write such a graph checker. I (and others i know of) have thought about this problem, it is an intersting problem, i dont think anybody has come up with a good solution yet.

Re: Detecting dependency cycles and conflict dependency problems in packages

2001-12-23 Thread Nicolas Chauvat
Bernhard R. Link wrote: * Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011222 01:53]: [...] (I am using testing). [...] What I call a conflict dependency problem is something like (A conflicts with B and B depends on A). I saw at least one case where this was on purpose to facilitate upgrade, but I would

Re: Detecting dependency cycles and conflict dependency problems in packages

2001-12-23 Thread Bernhard R. Link
* Nicolas Chauvat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011222 01:53]: > [...] (I am using testing). [...] > What I call a conflict dependency problem is something like (A conflicts > with B and B depends on A). I saw at least one case where this was on > purpose to facilitate upgrade, but I would say that it is