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xunilhcra_2025

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Registered: 2025-02-21

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[solved] question on rolling releases

New to rolling releases.  I went to install wine and got the following message:

warning: dependency cycle detected:
warning: lib32-harfbuzz will be installed before its lib32-freetype32 dependancy.

I see lib32-harfbuzz had an update yesterday.

So does this mean I just have to wait for the other library to be updated before installing wine?

Last edited by xunilhcra_2025 (2025-02-23 03:47:18)

V1del

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Registered: 2012-10-16

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Re: [solved] question on rolling releases

you can generally ignore those. The cyclic relevance is mostly important when actually building the packages from source. They don't really have a bearing on "you, the end user" that installs the final package. And this is specific to harfbuzz and freetype in this case and has little to do with the fact the release is rolling.

xunilhcra_2025

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Registered: 2025-02-21

Posts: 13

Re: [solved] question on rolling releases

you can generally ignore those. The cyclic relevance is mostly important when actually building the packages from source. They don't really have a bearing on "you, the end user" that installs the final package. And this is specific to harfbuzz and freetype in this case and has little to do with the fact the release is rolling.

Ok, thank you for the info, that makes senses.

Last edited by xunilhcra_2025 (2025-02-22 13:50:14)

V1del

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Re: [solved] question on rolling releases

Well then specific to all of the rest of this. The main reason you're seeing this is because this is the first time you install a multilib package of note so all the deps get pulled and installed in the same transaction which will lead to these messages for the relevant dependants (basically during dependency resolution you'd go in circles unless pacman decides, I'm just going to pick one of these to install first, here's the info that this is happening, if this is a problem, react appropriately). Generally speaking a "warning" is a piece of information that isn't fatal to the operation you're about to do (it would be an error and fail in that case). Without going too much into the technical details, the fact that the deps are cyclic are not going to have a bearing on your usecase as an end user.