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Subject: Re: when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall  them
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joe trree wrote:
> (this is just one of many annoyances in the cygwin installer, but it's
> a really stupid one that i just ran into)
> when two packages depend on eachother, it's impossible to uninstall them
> (exmaple: Util/bzip2 and Libs/libbz2)

You're right.  Dependency loops are bad -- but sometimes unavoidable, 
when A and B really are co-dependent.  However, in this case libbz2 
really shouldn't depend on bzip2 -- the true dependency is one-way.

I'll fix that, but as for the general problem...

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Chuck

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