On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:15:30 -0500 Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
Ville Skyttä wrote:
Agreed. But in case a dependency "loop" like this between some packages is not avoidable
In many cases where foo Requires foo-bar and foo-bar Requires foo, IMO, there shouldn't *be* a foo-bar subpackage at all. One example off the top of my head: openoffice.org openoffice.org-libs What's the point of the separate -libs subpkg?
I agree. Another example that I was thinking about: rpm and popt. They *are* both built from the same SRPM (rpm). rpm is always in the system, and it requires popt in the exact version. Why not build *single* rpm containing them both???
Jarek