no provider for XFree86-devel dependency

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at redhat.com
Thu Nov 3 02:10:17 UTC 2005


Hi

>Ah, how about instead of working around this, you wait until the deps
>have been satisfied.
>
>I think it's worth saying that we are about to see some humongous
>changes with the introduction of the module xorg into rawhide (of which
>these issues are a part) but that, with a little patient a simple 'yum
>update' should just work.
>
>While an 'rpm --nodeps' might _solve_ the problem in the short term, it
>might also create bigger problems in the long term, making more work for
>the developers to figure out because someone forced something to 'make
>it work'.
>
>Sorry if this is too harsh, but the use of rawhide needs a little
>patience sometimes which include putting up with broken deps, broken
>packages and other stuff.  What rawhide doesn't need to 'artificial'
>breakage that adds another layer of complexity to and already complex
>task.
>
>
>Rodd
>  
>
+1 on this. Very well said.

regards
Rahul




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