Install Order

[Rainer Müller]

Neil wrote:
> (Stolen from Ryan Schmidt's mail on 29 Nov 2008, at 14:48.)
> 
> Order of Operations to Install
>       1  fetch
>       2  checksum
>       3  extract
>       4  patch
>       5  configure
>       6  build
>       7  destroot
>       8  install
>       9  deactivate
>      10  activate
>      11  clean
> 
> (I'm kind of thinking out loud here...)
> 
> Proposal:
> What if we changed the order slightly, so we do steps 1-7 for all the  
> packages first, and then, if there are no errors, do 8-11?

This is not possible, because dependencies have to be installed and
active or they cannot be used on building dependents.

Rainer