sane dependencies -- a positive look at 'fix your packages'

[Havoc Pennington]

On Sat, 2003-10-04 at 19:51, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Actually the smart thing would be to distribute apt/yum/up2date profiles
> that match an usage, and let them the package manager download the parts
> that are not installed yet and all second, third, fourth... -level
> dependencies.

That's the comps file approach redhat-config-packages uses now,
essentially. Just need to have an idea of a comps file as a standalone
thing with a MIME handler perhaps.

Havoc