On Fri, 26 Jun 2009, Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 06:30:01 -0400, Stephen wrote:
I think he's just talking about clearing up unnecessary duplication
(like with his php-pear example) that confuses the yum dependency checker.
Hmmm? Tom's announcement doesn't mention any such confusion.
Are there really dependencies on directories being used which cause the
depsolver to pull in a wrong package? Dependencies on paths outside /etc
and *bin* ought to be the exception, not the rule. In particular, since
they require the optional filelists metadata to be downloaded and parsed.
I've recently cleaned up some wrong ownership of %_libdir/pkgconfig/, but
in general I think Tom should rather help with fixing unowned directories
and implicit conflicts instead. ;)
This is not so much about yum, but about possibly enabling rpm to use the
directory hierarchy for additional hints in transaction ordering (and
general sanity, ownership of eg translation-related directories is a huge
mess without a good reason):
https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-packaging/2009-June/msg00059.html
There are several complications that need to be resolved somehow
before it's possible in practise though.
- Panu -
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