X-Recipient: archive-cygwin AT delorie DOT com DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=default; b=MG46DVhlmGyrEkle wLZXbFXU17ZLgbRHQok+rtUP8muvkXOHeiibcT4TvcRZZAklz/ZEFHxYJSuMrRE4 T720JqtU6Kl1507DAiiRr33ZF+z9ncowAgEEAoQZXGJ2h3LBmJtHaGXC98gTvn+b fmMwbYeyKaE8h9UpQNnY649XvrM= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=sourceware.org; h=list-id :list-unsubscribe:list-subscribe:list-archive:list-post :list-help:sender:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :mime-version:in-reply-to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; s=default; bh=n3InB1Qegy8/0E/x0gId9q ynnoQ=; b=KbilHs+ALQd+LVwsezsq15EBnHBgdRgq1/6UXoIeGjmWI/9WRAqewm 74NgWcc2Q3Z0IG8DDaqSl9VsrogOsV8i8YJfweIW6a8cFnaqsUtOLdQKzNbwfFbP pL1bMaqaA15iPjeGlEjiE27gV2XD88aSpzbzHeVjrqEmVmuhsyebM= Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE,RCVD_IN_SORBS_SPAM,SPF_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*r:192.168.2, cygcheck, cygwin64, perfect X-HELO: mail-wm0-f49.google.com X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:subject:to:references:from:message-id:date :user-agent:mime-version:in-reply-to:content-language :content-transfer-encoding; bh=hhgOxi7HDTzarOUsSuMFRVoIVTGeIYAOWFamZE39oGM=; b=FA3uwcAw8+EayBuwsJZKWeeVEFPU5WpdhOV7Wb64kFyYAlP2zmYzMPZuTv9GmTCDBW 41/1YTHH20DCAk7j0yw3Zg7P6NcygyHpblWvQqY9qMACWgmHjVNc0TxDgz99Q2NEantv 4M0YYrZW7laWaloMuMDIVR3zt7KyPFRk+QA4xnyddPuI07V1NukMxW0hNzNhJSS+eHPQ y2dFp/6vkLtpvZSDCI3BlS6WL+onDmQSHtEzgvweE7ELlbTnVbSztVV24UTMrmJQ5js2 SmbHt5KCp1tBYC+1jxjeBTCIKDob0cQxAabRKD2kvp1OOPIpdayhTyCMWQOPugSQR95E SWZA== X-Gm-Message-State: AHPjjUjNV8vIRpTzPQ6CEz+GzEgZefQ+ipJNf1+KYWhwARp/mqO2FAVU 0xzlEgxjToaR5XfVuDg1X+ebASIM X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QAxj7CiqpyrxlrAzKipfsmH0F8dK12VYtPxMlCF5bCkQFmz+RZbx1ZjYSHuyRPI+ZbMnkLwmQ== X-Received: by 10.80.187.46 with SMTP id y43mr13180690ede.213.1506760986507; Sat, 30 Sep 2017 01:43:06 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: Dependency issues in setup.ini. To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <505405e4-5a2f-8d6b-f012-404bd7d69009 AT gmx DOT com> <59cecb88 DOT c1d4ca0a DOT 53569 DOT 24bf AT mx DOT google DOT com> From: Marco Atzeri Message-ID: <6ba668a5-8180-74d8-52df-c14add756f34@gmail.com> Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 10:42:59 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <59cecb88.c1d4ca0a.53569.24bf@mx.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes On 30/09/2017 00:39, Steven Penny wrote: > 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 > data > some dependency loop are real as some packages have cross dependency: $ cygcheck cygMagickCore-6.Q16-5.dll | grep auto E:\cygwin64\bin\cygautotrace-3.dll $ cygcheck cygautotrace-3.dll |grep Q16 E:\cygwin64\bin\cygMagickCore-6.Q16-5.dll -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple