Regarding install options

[James Antill]

On Mon, 2008-10-20 at 22:41 +0000, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 <at> freenet.de> writes:
> > And yes, the fact yum pulls in python is a real problem on small
> > systems. Even worse are the system-config-* tools, most of which pull in
> > many more packages and don't even work without X.
> 
> Help us get the zypper stack in then:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447740
> I can ask Lorenzo what still needs to be done.

 AIUI zypper doesn't resolve file deps.  (SuSE just don't have them) ...
so while I personally wouldn't mind being able to yum install it and
play with it, I don't think we should recommend it's use.

 And that's even if having two different depsolvers/pacakge-managers
supported at once wasn't complete crack, which it is.

> Unfortunately, it will probably never be considered as a default, even for a 
> minimal installation. :-( But it could be used on custom kickstarts.
> 
> I'd also suggest the good old apt-rpm, but unfortunately I'm not sure if it 
> works with the new RPM in F10 (Panu told me at FUDCon Brno that there's some 
> fun stuff like Lua version conflicts).

 apt seems to crash a lot, for me, YMMV. And that's even if having two different...

-- 
James Antill <james.antill at redhat.com>
Red Hat
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