[DCPM] hierarchies

[Neil Williams]

On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 23:06:34 +0000
Simon Waters <simon at technocool.net> wrote:

> Neil Williams wrote:
> >
> > Given an existing set of packages A, which packages need to be built
> > *FIRST* in order to eventually build a system to support package set B.
>
> Can you define what problem you are trying to solve, rather than what
> you think you need to do to solve it.

Put another way:

package foo exists, package bar needs to be built. bar depends on foo
and baz. baz depends only on foo. It's obvious that baz must be built
first, then bar. Trying to build bar first will fail due to the lack of
baz. How to calculate this on a larger scale?

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