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List:       gentoo-dev
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-dev]  Re: Unified nVidia Driver Ebuild ready for
From:       Chris Gianelloni <wolf31o2 () gentoo ! org>
Date:       2005-12-30 17:54:21
Message-ID: 1135965261.8411.6.camel () inertia ! twi-31o2 ! org
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On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 13:40 -0500, Peter wrote:
> This is because glx has kernel as a dependency. Can't have it both ways
> (as someone else here pointed out) because you'd have a circular
> dependency...kernel requires glx, but glx requires kernel which requires
> glx...and around we go.

Why can't both RDEPEND on the other?  This works perfectly fine for many
packages in the tree.  A circular dependency isn't a bad thing if
they're both in RDEPEND, it is when they're both in DEPEND that causes
an issue.

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Chris Gianelloni
Release Engineering - Strategic Lead
x86 Architecture Team
Games - Developer
Gentoo Linux

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