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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>
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 19:02:42 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwva9sedk95.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sj66mko0.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> (Nic Ferrier's message of "Sat, 12 Jan 2013 16:27:11 +0000")

> 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

What do you mean by "begins an install of"?

> install fails because web cannot be found, even though it was requested
> to be installed by web-test.

What means "install fails"?  And why can't web be found since it
supposedly was installed already?

> Right, it does look like there's a bug.

Obviously what you describe points to a bug, yes.


        Stefan



  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-13  0:02 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
2013-01-13  0:02           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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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