Re: proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 07:05:35PM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> Daniel Veillard wrote:
> > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 06:02:10PM +0900, Jens Petersen wrote:
> > 
> >>Why would libxml2-static have to be installed in the same rpm transaction?
> > 
> >   because you really can't allow -static and -devel to mismatch
> 
> Err, can't the -static package just requires the -devel package with the same EVR?

  yes so you need a single transaction for anything which may upgrade 
any of the packages. This is confusing a lot of people even developpers
when they are new with the platform, yum helps a lot there.

Daniel

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