enters infinite loop on mutual depends in Remotes

[cboettig]

Looks like this issue was fixed in the dev version of dplyr, but still impacts this package. e.g. remotes::install_github("hadley/dplyr") fails due to recursive dependency between dplyr and dtplyr,
tidyverse/dplyr#1904.

Thanks!

[gaborcsardi]

Indeed, thanks!

[gaborcsardi]

I don't think this is fixed in devtools, actually. The "fix" was that they removed the actual circular dependency. (Which is the correct fix.)

Still, it would be nice to detect the circular dependencies, but I don't think that this is very important.

[jimhester]

This is handled in devtools, as part of r-lib/devtools#1067, in particular r-lib/devtools@a3dcdf8

[gaborcsardi]

Yes, this is actually an issue, currently. Only if a package in Remotes is a soft dependency somewhere in the chain, though, because hard dependencies cannot be circular.

[gaborcsardi]

Thanks! I finally understood that this can be a problem, and fixed it, the same way as in devtools.