Dependency issues in setup.ini.

Steven Penny svnpenn@gmail.com
Fri Sep 29 23:54:00 GMT 2017


On Fri, 29 Sep 2017 21:16:17, "Sam Edge (Cygwin)" wrote:
> For example we have lots of dependency loops in the 'requires' fields in
> setup.ini - even to the point that some packages depend upon themselves!

It is the job of the package manager to detect and avoid such loops. No database
is perfect - it is up to the good programmer to account for an deal with problem
data


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