RFC: Soname in rpm name

[Michael Schwendt]

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 09:47:39 -0500, Charles R. Anderson wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 12:59:57PM +0100, Aurelien Bompard wrote:
> > Jeff Johnson wrote:
> > > Try with rpm -i.
> > 
> > Yeah OK. How about something that would be understood by depsolvers then ?
> 
> installonly packages are already well understood by depsolvers.  Look 
> at the kernel packages.
> 
> yum.conf:
> 
> installonlypkgs=
> 

Nah, that's only a work-around. There's no way for a repository to flag
packages as install-only.