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# Cycle detector for void-packages
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This script enumerates dependencies for packages in a
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[void-packages repository](https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages)
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and identifies build-time dependency cycles.
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For command syntax, run `xbps-cycles.py -h`. Often, it may be sufficient to run
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`xbps-cycles.py` with no arguments. By default, the script will look for a
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repository at `$XBPS_DISTDIR`; if that variable is not defined, the current
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directory is used instead. To override this behavior, use the `-d` option to
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provide the path to your desired void-packages clone.
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The standard behavior will be to spawn multiple processes, one per CPU, to
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enumerate package dependencies. This is by far the most time-consuming part of
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the execution. To override the degree of parallelism, use the `-j` option.
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Dependencies can be cached on disk, one file per package, in directory
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passed with `-c` option. On next execution with same option, dependencies are
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read from file rather than computed.
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Failures should be harmless but, at this early stage, unlikely to be pretty or
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even helpful.
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