Where Fedora Went Wrong (nice conclusion)

[Les Mikesell]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 16 May 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
>>  Then there's the stuff that fedora people don't
>> like to talk about - that you have to get from other repositories.
> 
> I don't see how there is any solution to that one.

It would be nice if yum knew what 'top-level' packages you had ever 
asked it to install and saved that somewhere so you could repeat it on 
the new system after fixing up the repository list.   You can get a list 
of installed packages from rpm, but that's not quite the same thing 
because on a new version the libraries needed to resolve dependencies 
may have changed.  For example you might have told yum to get vlc and 
want to repeat that, but rpm is going to see a dozen other packages and 
not know you don't care about them specifically.

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   Les Mikesell
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