Dependency reciprocity : real world problem with httpd and httpd-suexec

Jaroslaw Gorny jgorny at aurox.org
Wed Sep 8 08:04:17 UTC 2004


On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:15:30 -0500
Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:

> Ville Skyttä wrote:
> 
> > Agreed.  But in case a dependency "loop" like this between some
> > packages is not avoidable
> 
> In many cases where foo Requires foo-bar and foo-bar Requires foo,
> IMO, there shouldn't *be* a foo-bar subpackage at all.  One example
> off the top of my head:
> openoffice.org
> openoffice.org-libs
> What's the point of the separate -libs subpkg?
> 

I agree. Another example that I was thinking about: rpm and popt.
They *are* both built from the same SRPM (rpm). rpm is always in the
system, and it requires popt in the exact version. Why not build
*single* rpm containing them both???

Jarek





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