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Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.
- From: Steven Penny <svnpenn at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2017 15:39:04 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini.
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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
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