From: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to.
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:27:11 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sj66mko0.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvmwwewim0.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:03:25 -0500")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> That's not what I saw, as you can see from the original message?
>
> The original message doesn't make it clear what you saw (it just says
> "The trouble is package.el can't install this. It fails to install
> Elnode because of the dependancy on web." which doesn't say if
> package.el refuses to do it, or tries to do it and signals an error at
> some point, or does it but the result misbehaves in some way, ...).
Right. I thought I did describe it but I didn't include enough detail,
clearly:
- web-test begins an install of web
- web-test begins an install of elnode
- install of elnode begins an install of web
install fails because web cannot be found, even though it was requested
to be installed by web-test.
> But in any case, my message did not aim to describe the way package.el
> works but the way it could/should work.
Right, it does look like there's a bug.
Since it seems to be affecting only me atm (because only I am doing this
kind of stuff with emacs) I will try and find time to fix it.
Nic Ferrier
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-12 16:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-04 0:24 package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to Nic Ferrier
2013-01-04 14:26 ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-04 17:15 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-11 23:27 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-12 2:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-12 14:14 ` Nic Ferrier
2013-01-12 15:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-12 16:27 ` Nic Ferrier [this message]
2013-01-13 0:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-01-14 21:47 ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-15 0:00 ` Xue Fuqiao
2013-01-15 1:24 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2013-01-15 2:14 ` Stefan Monnier
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