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

Nicolas Mailhot Nicolas.Mailhot at laPoste.net
Sun Oct 5 07:39:26 UTC 2003


Le dim 05/10/2003 à 03:04, Havoc Pennington a écrit :
> 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.

Sure. I realised after posting that was exactly what anaconda already
did at installation time;)

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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