Dependency loops considered harmful?

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Sep 4 16:13:43 UTC 2008


On Wednesday 03 September 2008, Jon Ciesla wrote:

> > Case 1)
> > game-data-0.8  Requires  game = 0.8
> > What happens if game-1.0 is released with unchanged game-data?
> > Then you need to update game-data for nothing else than the broken dep.
>
> I've yet to see this happen.

Not sure if you mean the whole scenario (including the dependency) above, but 
for example uqm is one game that has been updated with game data staying the 
same more than once.  It does not have the "=" dep like the above though.




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