Excessive package interdependency

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Thu Dec 18 21:37:46 UTC 2003


On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:12:37PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> A much nicer solution has been proposed on the list - define a
> comps.xml-like virtual bundle format that can be fed into
> yum/up2date/apt/etc and let people distribute whatever subjective bundle
> descriptors they like this way.

You also want to remember bundles (or guess them for old setups), so that
you can say "has gnome" ok now in FC2 gnome has added x and y, stick up a
"The package groups you have selected have been expanded in this release,
 shall I also installl..."





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