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Re: dpkg unpack vs. configure

From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@waterf.org>
> Ok. Debmake should scan for which package that interpreter belongs to and
> predepend on it. Right?

Correct.

> Circular dependencies are rather strange.
> Can we have a concrete example of one?

	ld.so uses bash, perl, and fileutils to confgure itself,
	although the pre-dependencies are _not_ in the control file.

	libc5 pre-depends on ldso, and uses bash, dpkg, and fileutils to configure
	itself, although the pre-dependencies for those are again not in the control
	file.

	Bash, perl, fileutils, and dpkg need ldso and libc5 to run.

There are probably more mundane ones that I don't know about.
I have to beat dpkg about the head to build the base system. As you have
argued, it really should be possible to build a system from packages
without the base archive.

> Perhaps packages could set a marker to tell that they are not
> interactively configuring and those could be done immediately?

We have a better solution for this - configure at selection time.

	Thanks

	Bruce
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