Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo gets as bad SuSE: Circular dependencies [WAS: Thank you Gentoo devs]

["Andrey Gerasimenko" <gak@kaluga.ru>]

On Sat, 19 May 2007 07:00:58 +0400, Kent Fredric <kentfredric@gmail.com>  
wrote:

> ...
>
> Imo, the cyclic dep problem could be solved as thus,
>
> A depends B
>     B depends  C||A
>
> Where C is a minimalist subset of A required for building B, which is
> only depended on if A is not present.
> A is also a replacement for C.
>
> So the flow would go like such.
>
> Emerge A:
>   * depends on b
>      * A is missing, so depend on C
> *emerges C*
> *emerges B*
> *removes C*  <-- otherwise  A & C containing the same files = headache
> *emerges A*
>
> Yes, indeed I agree that we could just do this by hand by changing a
> USE flag, but we should at least be open to the idea of looking for a
> way to automatically resolve the problem. Computers exist to make our
> life easier, not the other way around :)
>

Just curious: why nobody suggests to allow Portage to use the preferred  
method of binary distros: emerge several interdependent packages in one  
transaction. Just prepare the source for A and B and compile both in any  
order. IMHO this is what the ideal system should do.

-- 
Andrei Gerasimenko
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