Excessive package interdependency

Jeremy Katz katzj at redhat.com
Fri Dec 19 05:56:41 UTC 2003


On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 17:18, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> That's why virtual bundles should be "loose" and not mandatory links
> like current package deps. They'd be used to register "areas of
> interest", with the user prompted when one of the installed bundles
> perimeter changed (ie you have the Gnome bundle installed - Gnome has
> been expanded to include metacity-cd-burner do you want to install it ?)

Not really... then you have to differentiate "new" vs "there before, you
just chose not to install it" which gets back to the problems I already
stated :(

Cheers,

Jeremy





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