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Re: package.el can't install a circular depend and it should be able to.


From: Stefan Monnier
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
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux)

> 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



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