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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Needs ideas: Upcoming circular dependency: expat <>
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On 12/18/19 4:02 PM, Sebastian Pipping wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 
> I noticed that dev-util/cmake depends on dev-libs/expat and that
> libexpat upstream (where I'm involved) is in the process of
> dropping GNU Autotools altogether in favor of CMake in the near future,
> potentially the next release (without any known target release date).
>> ...
> 
> Do you have any ideas how to avoid a bad circular dependency issue for
> our users in the future?  Are you aware of similar problems and
> solutions from the past?

Keep autotools?