Notes on Yum Changes

Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Mon Sep 6 19:55:51 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 20:04 +0100, Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> Well, I thought there was a process for package submission, review and
> what not. Of course accidents happen. But this is no excuse, or is a
> "meta packager" like yum not better than plain rpm in itself?
> 
> As far as I can see, I have to solve about as many problems as I did
> without a metapackager (--obsoletes, --exclude=..., etc...). The job of
> a meta packager is making things easier.

This is, of course, assuming I already have the RPMS.
The automatic download of what's needed saves me a lot of time!

Thanks!

Rui

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