C++ compatibility package dropped

[Paul Howarth]

Mitch Skinner wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 21:11 +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> 
>>The problem is that:
>>
>>a) This requires every RPM to be in a yum repository. Usually if they
>>   aren't in Extras, FreshRPMs, Dag or somesuch then they are just an RPM on
>>   a download page. Then automatic dep resolution doesn't work.
> 
> 
> With system-install-packages apparently moving toward a yum backend (or
> with whatever yum GUI we end up with), it ought to be fairly
> straightforward to try and resolve deps from configured repositories
> even when installing non-repo RPMs.  In the FC4 case, that would fix
> your issue a) above for compat-libstdc++-33, right?

This can already be addressed in FC4 using:

# yum localinstall some-package.rpm

where yum will go off and get any required dependencies for the rpm to 
be installed.

Pau.