yum+mach2 for fedora-development tree pseudo-release

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Mar 2 06:30:35 UTC 2005


>> I could easily add virtual provides support into 'yum install' in
>> cvs-HEAD and this problem goes away - I'm just wondering would it make
>> more sense to hack yum to make it comply with mach2 or to hack mach2 to
>> make it work with yum.
>
>IMHO it should be done in yum. I often ran into this problem already
>during normal yum usage (e.g. built tests outside a build system /
>directly from CVS). Typing 
>$ yum install XFree86-devel
>is easier and a lot faster faster then
>$ yum provides XFree86-devel
><filter result>
>$ yum install xorg-x11-devel
>

you could have done this all along, though, with resolvedep. However,
it's been implemented. The major reason I don't like it in 'install' is
that it further complicates the things a user could put there, it's just
more code to sift through when someone breaks something.

-sv





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