Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Miroslav Lichvar]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:26:38AM -0800, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
> But the zlib loop? It touches so many packages I'm not sure it could
> be deliberate decision.  Can we avoid it? I don't know...it would
> require the maintainers of all the packages in the loop to talk about
> it.

This one is ugly. It could be reduced dramatically by removing bash ->
mktemp and glibc-common -> /bin/{ba,}sh dependencies, only two small
loops glibc-common <-> glibc and pam <-> coreutils would remain.

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Miroslav Lichvar