From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nic Ferrier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel 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 Message-ID: <87sj66mko0.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> References: <87fw2h94mg.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <8738yh10u9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <8738y6o5d8.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1358008052 5940 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2013 16:27:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:27:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Tom Tromey , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 12 17:27:48 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 1Tu3vq-0003xK-3L for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:27:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36571 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu3va-000798-1F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:27:26 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39689) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu3vS-000782-0I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:27:24 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu3vN-0007n7-Ek for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:27:17 -0500 Original-Received: from static.17.66.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.66.17]:60847 helo=po1.ferrier.me.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu3vN-0007n3-8L for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 11:27:13 -0500 Original-Received: from nferrier (140.35.155.90.in-addr.arpa [90.155.35.140]) by po1.ferrier.me.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22F35AC01EF; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 17:30:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nferrier (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nferrier (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2EFD61600B7; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:27:11 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2013 10:03:25 -0500") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 78.46.66.17 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:156291 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier 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