The updates firehose

[Matthias Clasen]

On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 11:46 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 11 June 2007 11:34:25 Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=243689
> >
> > It's an example of what I call bug.
> >
> > I also consider it granted that you will be going to fix this for FC-7
> > ASAP.
> 
> I also consider this a bug.  It winds up pulling metacity-devel onto a user's 
> system when they try to install something that requires metacity.  Then all 
> the depchain of metacity-devel is pulled in as well.

Doesn't rpm's grandiose shortest-name-wins rule save us there ?