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| author |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaranm@snowmobile.(none)> | 2008-02-18 16:22:50 +0000 |
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| committer |   Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@blueyonder.co.uk> | 2008-02-19 19:06:31 +0000 |
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Cycles are illegal in profiles.
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diff --git a/profiles.tex b/profiles.tex index 2930095..b6ead75 100644 --- a/profiles.tex +++ b/profiles.tex @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ inherited by this profile, and can be overridden by it. Precise rules for how se with the parent profile vary between files, and are described below. Parents are handled depth first, left to right, with duplicate parent paths being sourced for every time they are encountered. +It is illegal for a profile's parent tree to contain cycles. Package manager behaviour upon +encountering a cycle is undefined. + This file must not contain comments, blank lines or make use of line continuations. \subsection{deprecated} |