suggests/requires in rpm
Jeff Johnson
n3npq at nc.rr.com
Mon Jan 24 14:40:19 UTC 2005
seth vidal wrote:
>>I, for one, thought Jeff was clear that it's the job of depsolvers
>>(anaconda, yum, smart, apt) to decide what to do with the extra
>>information.
>>
>>
>
>All that's really been done is to push the decision-making process off
>on the depsolvers.
>
>It hasn't resolved the problem, just resolved the problem for rpm.
>
>
Au contraire.
Change no yum code, i.e. don't look at the RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK bit, and
you have exactly
the existing behavior.
Meanwhile, rpm -e becomes possible for end-users, albeit at the expense
of flip-flop through anaconda.
That appears to be progress forward.
OTOH -- without an RFE in bugzilla -- I shall not waste 3 hours on an
implementation, and so no problem
whatsoever has been, or will be, resolved.
Criminey, how hard is it to check a bit that marks an edge in a graph
"optional"? You'ld think this
was NPTL or SELinux.
73 de Jeff
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