circular dependencies

René J.V. Bertin rjvbertin at gmail.com
Mon Feb 23 07:18:21 PST 2015


On Monday February 23 2015 09:19:35 Brandon Allbery wrote:

> > How can it do that without deactivating everything that's not somehow a
> > dependency (and thus making it impossible to do anything while an install
> > is being done), or by duplicating potentially a huge portion of the entire
> > MacPorts tree?

> By intercepting system calls, like Debian's fakeroot.

Ugh. Just make it optional (as in "can be turned off"), ok? ...

R.


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