Re: RFC: Soname in rpm name

[seth vidal <skvidal phy duke edu>]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 09:47 -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=

I'd recommend finding a way to specify this in the packaging
information, though.

otherwise you'll be editing that line all the time. :(

-sv