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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Nic Ferrier <nferrier@ferrier.me.uk>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to.
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:43:22 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvmwwf1eqt.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8738yh10u9.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Fri,  04 Jan 2013 07:26:06 -0700")

> It was intended to do a topological sort of the graph and activate
> packages from the bottom up.  If this isn't working then there is a bug.

Do we actually need such a topological sort?
I mean the only place where ordering might matter is when loading the
autoloads file, AFAICT (for all other steps like download, unpack, compile
the order in which packages are processed doesn't matter).


        Stefan



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-12  2:43 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 [this message]
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
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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