basesystem, setup and filesystem

[Phil Knirsch]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> It would be nice to solve the issues raised in the merge reviews of
> those basic packages. It is on hold since some months.
> 
> In https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=225608 Robert Scheck
> proposed to remove basesystem, have setup depend on filesystem, and
> glibc depend on setup.
> 
> I think this is a good idea. Any feedback?
> 
> --
> Pat
> 

Hi Patrice.

I've written a comment in the bz as well, but i think the order should 
rather be:

basesystem
setup
filesystem

or, in case we decide to drop basesystem (i'm all for it btw, no reason 
to keep it hanging around for no reason):

glibc: Requires(Pre) filesystem
filesystem: Requires(Pre) setup

which would end up being:

setup
filesystem
glibc

In case we drop it though we need to add

   Obsoletes: basesystem-x-y
   Provides: basesystem-x-y

to filesystem in order to have a consistent behavior and a proper chain 
for updates, too.

Thoughts?

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