Dependency loops considered harmful?

Thomas Moschny thomas.moschny at gmail.com
Thu Sep 4 10:41:49 UTC 2008


2008/9/4 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> With that said, there needs to be a way for a developer to tell yum not
> to prune away leaf packages if they want.

% yum install libFoo

this might look like a noop, because libFoo is already installed, but
it would switch the bit for libFoo from 'installed-as-dependency' to
'first-class-installed'.

- Thomas




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