Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Vasile Gaburici]

On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:08 AM, Vasile Gaburici <vgaburici at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 1:05 AM, Matthew Woehlke
> <mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
>> Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
>>>
>>> Uhm... you realize that building an rpm every time you want to test a
>>> change as you develop an app is incredibly clunky?  It really is not
>>> going to happen.  Really.
>>
>> I still submit that this itself is a problem that should be worked on... Why
>> must it be "too clunky"? Why can't we fix it so that expecting developers to
>> install via rpm, even for incremental builds, is perfectly reasonable? Of
>> course this process probably won't involve going through a full rpmbuild,
>> just something that tracks the installed files in rpm's database along with
>> updating the database for dependencies (i.e. it would replace 'make install'
>> but not 'make all').
>
> This would be nice, but it is at odds with the idea of building from
> pristine (archived) sources.

More to the point: -ba --short-circuit is not allowed on purpose.