Re: Getting 3rd party RPM's via an OS installer?

[Dan Stromberg - Datallegro <dstromberg datallegro com>]

On Tue, 21 Aug 2007 16:25:12 -0400, Jeff Johnson wrote:

> 
> On Aug 21, 2007, at 4:02 PM, Dan Stromberg - Datallegro wrote:
> 
>>
>> One simple fix is to have "knots" and "bows".  Each loop of a bow is a
>> topological sort; each knot is an inflection point that cordons off  
>> one
>> tsort from another.
>>
>> So the OS would go into bow 0, and most of the time, all the other  
>> RPM's
>> would go into bow 1.  Or you could use them bows like BASIC line  
>> numbers -
>> starting with the OS in bow 1000, allowing room for things to come in
>> front and behind.
>>
>> Then as you compute your tsorts, you just catenate them together in  
>> bow
>> order to get your ordered list of rpm's to install.
>>
> 
> This works for ordering, not for dependency closure.

It seems to me like it should work fine.  What am I missing?

Granted, you could have dependencies that contradict your bow
constraints...  But then you could have an rpm option that says to ignore
dependencies between bows.