Circular dependencies

[Matthias Saou]

Michael Schwendt wrote :

> A circular dependency is the wrong way of thinking here. Probably it's
> only applied because end-users are confronted with data package names and
> might try low-level commands like "yum install somegame-data" instead of
> telling an installer to add/remove "somegame".

Well, one might argue that without a circular dependency, end-users are
confronted with a possibly unexpected behaviour :

yum install gamename (pulls-in huge gamename-data)
yum remove gamename (leaves huge gamename-data installed...)

I'm not saying that a circular dependency is the right solution, but it
is indeed the only easy one I see.

Matthias

> (In networked multi-machine installations it would even be plausible to
> remove the dependency on the game data package, as it might be installed
> only on a file server.)

And see bug reports flowing in... for anyone who might be facing that
scenario, I'd suggest either installing with --nodeps or installing the
game itself anyway :-)

Matthias

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