Yum dependencies troubles

[seth vidal]

On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:54, William Hooper wrote:
> seth vidal said:
> > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 12:10, Lars wrote:
> >
> >> anyone can tell what the package rpmdb-fedora actually does? i know it
> >> has a copy of all rpms, but my system behaves the same with or wihout
> >> it. so im asking myself for a long time whats the need of it?
> >>
> >
> > It's not used for yum at all anymore.
> >
> >
> > IT used to make it quicker to get a hold of some of the older headers.
> 
> Isn't it still needed for using "--redhatprovides" and "--redhatrequires"
> with the rpm command?  Not sure if it helps with "--aid" also or not.


It is still used for those  - but it's not used for YUM at all.

That's all I said.
-sv