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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] The story of "Oh, my dependencies"
  • Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 09:34:16 -0700

On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 09:22:21AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Arwed von Merkatz <v.merkatz AT gmx.net>:
> > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 08:57:00AM -0700, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > > Hey guys,
> > >
> > > We should probably discuss possible solutions to Bug #5957[0]. ;)
> > >
> > > -sandalle
> > >
> > > [0] http://bugs.sourcemage.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5957
> >
> > 1. indirect dependencies should be relied on, otherwise every single
> > gnome program would have a list of 30+ dependencies, which just isn't
> > manageable. (I thought we agreed on that before, otherwise we're
> > missing about a thousand dependencies on X11-LIBS ;)
> > 2. having dispel refuse to dispel spells that others depend on sounds
> > like a good solution, with a switch --force to override that
> > behaviour
>
> Yes, we had agreed on that, but then we still run into these problems as
> above,
> so I thought I'd bring it up again so we can get a complete solution in. :)
>

Fair enough, we make dispel less agnostic about depends. The other half
of the problem is fixing the broken trees which cleanse should take care of.

As for bug 5957, I have no idea how glib2 was not installed, but oh well,
if it was and stuff that was installed needed it, my bad.

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