On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 14:01:07 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > > system-release-product is needed by (installed) > > fedora-release-21-0.16.noarch > > > > As one can see, it's some virtual package or "capability", but not a direct > > or strict dependency on "fedora-release-cloud". > > Yes. That's not "a random generic dependency". > > > Even the "fedora-release-nonproduct" package provides > > "system-release-product".
> [...] > > The cloud package really doesn't > involve itself in that issue; cloud tends to crop up when you're > struggling with this simply because it tends to be the winner when yum > tries to solve the system-release-product requirement without any hints > (I think because it has the equal-shortest dep chain of any of the > packages that provide system-release-product , and comes first > alphabetically among all those with the shortest dep chain). So many words for what I call "a random generic dependency" => any provider of that "thing" can win the depsolving => boom! Or "doom" for the case of an explicit (or even implicit) conflict. Case closed for me. I think this is broken severely and ought to have been avoided. -- test mailing list test@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
