continuing with sprint development post-fc5

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Fri Mar 3 19:19:18 UTC 2006


On Sat, 2006-03-04 at 00:30 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> 
> >You can put "exclude=foo" or "include=foo" into your yum config if you
> >don't want everything.
> >
> >Site note so skvidal: Maybe a "includewithdeps=foo" would be nice
> >enhancement for .repo files. E.g. include foo, but if it needs bar from
> >the same repo include that, too.
> >
> Such a option would be extremely useful for testers. Why not change the 
> behavior of exclude option to exclude the related dependencies 
> automatically?

b/c the deps may not only be deps of what you excluded.
moreover it's putting waaay too much thinking into the depsolver.

the user needs to think more.

-sv





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