On May 22, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Robert Xu wrote: > On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 15:44, pinto.e...@gmail.com > <pinto.e...@gmail.com> wrote: >> In general this is a difficult question to answer, for my knowledge. There >> is not clear semantic for the weak deps, in other package management system >> the interpretation is into the deps solver that decide what to do ( aptitude >> vs apt vs dselect iirc ) . Suse have some patch for rpm.org about this >> issue last time i have cheched for rpm 4.8. > > There's always heated discussion about this. >
The heat isn't from the discussion, but rather the insane vanity of
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>> Anyway i think a better question could be : is it zypper rpm5 compatible ? I
>> don't know the answer now, never tried. But i am pretty sure that @rpm5.org
>> could be have interest to answer. Best Regards.
>
> I emailed bero from arklinux (knowing that he is working on getting
> libzypp/libsatsolver/zypper to work with rpm5) and I'm waiting for a
> response. But from what I hear, he's been terribly busy these days.
>
Yes, and zypper is used in ark (largely because apt-rpm wasn't
maintained nor getting the job done).
The Poky/Yacto distribution has also used zypper+rpm5, largely based
on some of bero's work with a few other fiddle ups.
73 de Jeff
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