beryl: missing deps

[Thorsten Leemhuis]

Jarod Wilson schrieb:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 17:33 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
>> CCing jwilson at redhat.com, owner of beryl
>> Mamoru Tasaka schrieb:
>>> Clive Messer wrote:
>>>> It looks like only some of beryl has been pushed to repo .......
>>> Missing deps are under FE-Review or are waiting for FE CVS to
>>> come back again to be rebuilt.
>> Then why the heck was beryl build for FC-6 if it was known that some
>> hardcoded deps were not yet in cvs and not ready to be build? People
>> will run into issues that way when using yum and thus the it's just a
>> totally stupid thing to do in a stable branch (and even quite bad in the
>> deel-branch, too).
>> /me is getting more and more annoyed with all those broken deps and
>> broken upgrade paths (some of them for months)...
> The only hard-coded deps that can't be met at the moment are on the
> meta-packages for installing all the beryl bits. As mentioned, the
> initial beryl-core package had no unresolved deps, but subsequent
> discussion while reviewing other beryl components led to the creation of
> some meta-packages to make installing all beryl bits easier for
> end-users.

I appreciate that idea, but it would have been better if you would have
 waited realizing this idea until the bits that the meta-packages
requires are at least in CVS and ready to build. ;)

> I guess I wasn't thinking when I pushed the beryl-core build
> w/the meta-packages enabled. My apologies for being "totally stupid".

Sorry, maybe I overreacted a bit. But we get more at more of this little
mistakes and stuff here and there that don't get fixed. That really
annoys me. We really need to be more careful.

> Of
> course, this would be (mostly) moot by now had cvs not taken a
> nose-dive... :)

Yeah, bad luck.

 Anyway, thx for your work on the beryl packages!

Cu
thl