119 pango-gtkbeta-devel pango-gtkbeta
134 Why are there
new loops? Because tsort is trying to use all of the
135 dependency relations
for ordering,
while the previous tsort ignored all
136 Requires: from added packages.
138 Except
for the
"well known" libtermcap <-> bash loop (which is just wrong),
139 all of the other dependencies are simply not needed in an upgrade context
140 to perform
package ordering. Please note that all of the known to cause
141 loop dependencies listed above are, for now, explicitly ignored when
142 determining package install ordering.
144 \subsection tsort_summary Summary
146 So what does this all mean? Basically not much, unless you find yourself
147 trying to specify dependencies amongst a set of packages correctly and
148 happen to create a dependency loop.
150 And, before you start adding the new-fangled syntax to packages, please
151 remember that rpm will almost certainly be auto-generating fine-grained
152 dependencies for %post et al scriptlets pretty soon. Truly, rpm needs to
153 make packaging easier, not provide Yet More Complicated Syntax in spec files.
155 With thanks to Ken Estes for doing the implementation in bash2 that makes
156 it possible to auto-generate scriptlet dependencies, blame me for the long,