From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to. Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 14:47:08 -0700 Message-ID: <877gnfmo83.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <87fw2h94mg.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <8738yh10u9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358200043 24386 80.91.229.3 (14 Jan 2013 21:47:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2013 21:47:23 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Nic Ferrier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jan 14 22:47:40 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TursX-0002pc-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 22:47:37 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50454 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TursH-00059H-Aa for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:47:21 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37534) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TursE-000587-AA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:47:19 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TursB-0000vx-Pa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:47:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:60243) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TursB-0000vn-IF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:47:15 -0500 Original-Received: from int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.25]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0ELlBGg017602 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.9.1]) by int-mx12.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r0ELl863025814 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Mon, 14 Jan 2013 16:47:09 -0500 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:43:22 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2.91 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.25 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:156352 Archived-At: >>>>> "Stefan" == Stefan Monnier writes: Tom> It was intended to do a topological sort of the graph and activate Tom> packages from the bottom up. If this isn't working then there is a bug. Stefan> Do we actually need such a topological sort? I mean the only Stefan> place where ordering might matter is when loading the autoloads Stefan> file, AFAICT (for all other steps like download, unpack, compile Stefan> the order in which packages are processed doesn't matter). I thought byte-compiling one package could require that package's dependencies, say via eval-when-compile. For downloading and unpacking, I agree, order doesn't matter. Tom