ports/151510: ports-mgmt/portupgrade: circular dependencies breaks pkgdb -L

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The following reply was made to PR ports/151510; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: hostmaster at gts.net
To: arved at FreeBSD.org
Cc: ruby at FreeBSD.org, bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, rene at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/151510: ports-mgmt/portupgrade: circular dependencies
 breaks pkgdb -L
Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2011 15:15:51 -0400 (EDT)

 On Mon, 25 Jul 2011, arved at FreeBSD.org wrote:
 
 |Synopsis: ports-mgmt/portupgrade: circular dependencies breaks pkgdb -L
 |
 |State-Changed-From-To: open->suspended
 |State-Changed-By: arved
 |State-Changed-When: Mon Jul 25 11:39:08 UTC 2011
 |State-Changed-Why: 
 |As rene wrote, this is not a portupbrade bug per se
 |
 |http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=151510
 
 
 	I still feel that this kind of cirularity
 	should be detectable by portupgrade pkgdb,
 	and some kind of evasion strategy taken -
 	perhaps with user dialog - thus the user
 	would no longer crippled by such loops to
 	the point where the pkgdb system becomes
 	completely unuseable.
 
 
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