On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 16:14, Austin Acton wrote: > On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 15:41, Lonnie Borntreger wrote: > > hydrogen-0.7.4 and libhydrogen0 both provide hydrogen. So, if you > > install libhydrogen0 and not hydrogen, then "urpmi hydrogen" says > > "everything installed". > > Sorry. Bad habit from lib-packages where libname should provide name. > Actually, libname should theoretically provide name if name requires > libname, since installing name also installs libname, thus libname > provides name. But in that case one can install libname, then urpmi > name and, as you said, urpmi refuses to install name because it thinks > it's already provided. Argh.
If you stand on your head, facing South, you can almost follow that logic. :-) Actually, as long as the package that provides name requires libname, then "urpmi name" will ask if it should install both the package that provides name and the package that provides libname. > I'll fix it right now. Saw it already. Lonnie
