[PATCH] Uninstall .dll last, reinstall first - final version

[Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID)]

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.