proposal to remove static libs from -devel packages for FC5
Daniel Veillard
veillard at redhat.com
Fri Jul 29 10:17:09 UTC 2005
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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