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RE: [PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version
- From: "Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)" <BBuchbinder at niaid dot nih dot gov>
- To: "'cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com'" <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Wed, 4 May 2005 09:05:06 -0400
- Subject: RE: [PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version
At Tuesday, May 03, 2005 5:28 PM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> On May 3 21:49, Max Bowsher wrote:
>> The other potential solution would be to attempt to uninstall the
>> packages in dependency-sorted order, but that might get awkward in
>> the case of circular dependencies.
>
> See my previous posting: Circular dependencies are bugs, right?
> Creating a dependency tree and complaining about circular dependencies
> in setup would be nice, though.
>
> Corinna
As you pointed out earlier, circular dependencies can be considered bugs in
the setup.hint files. Shouldn't they be caught and fixed when setup.ini is
being made? Then setup/Brian, which/who has enough to do, wouldn't have to
worry about it.