Distributions going smart & bugfixes?

[Michael Jennings]

On Friday, 09 January 2009, at 02:45:55 (+0200),
Axel Thimm wrote:

> I agree about the opal issue, but I think rpm dependency loops are
> not a bug per se, but AFAIK even a planned feature from the
> beginning. The "loops" are considered to be packages that can only
> be installed together.

Not really true.  In fact, in newer versions of RPM, dependency loops
are reported as an error.

Michael

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