not finding rpmbuild

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Tue Oct 23 22:00:27 UTC 2007


On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 21:01 +0200, Jos Vos wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:00:11PM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > if there are binaries that are the common used name adding provides in
> > is a good way to make that more obvious to install-by via yum.
> 
> I would be *very* selective for doing that.  It is unnecessary package
> namespace pollution and may conflict with any future real packages
> with such a name.
> 
> The fact that one can always do "yum install /usr/bin/something" is
> easy enough, IMHO.

I was acutally thinking of the obvious cases like: svn == subversion, hg
== mercurial, etc.

-sv





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