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 14:14:43 +0000 Message-ID: <8738y6o5d8.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> 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 1358000099 1668 80.91.229.3 (12 Jan 2013 14:14:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:14:59 +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 15:15:17 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 1Tu1rh-0000dV-2k for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:15:17 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56276 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu1rQ-0003Yf-LO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:15:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu1rJ-0003YY-VA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:14:58 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu1rE-00069s-Rh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:14:53 -0500 Original-Received: from static.17.66.46.78.clients.your-server.de ([78.46.66.17]:60129 helo=po1.ferrier.me.uk) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tu1rE-00068v-Kv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 09:14:48 -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 5442CAC01EF; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 15:18:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from nferrier (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nferrier (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B6C41600B7; Sat, 12 Jan 2013 14:14:43 +0000 (GMT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Fri, 11 Jan 2013 21:43:22 -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:156283 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: >> 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). That's not what I saw, as you can see from the original message? Nic Ferrier