starting Fedora Server SIG

[Seth Vidal]

On Thu, 13 Nov 2008, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:

> On Thursday, 13 November 2008 at 10:00, Enrico Scholz wrote:
>> Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net> writes:
>>
>>> If I explicitly add "plymouth-text-and-details-only" to my install,
>>> it satisfies the system-plymouth-plugin dependency, and I don't get
>>> libX11 and such.
>>>
>>> Maybe plymouth-text-and-details-only should be in @core and
>>> plymouth-plugin-solar in @base?
>>
>> Maybe 'yum' should be fixed to handle ambiguous situations better?
>> E.g. fail, warn and/or prompt when multiple packages satisfy a (virtual)
>> dependency?
>
> +1 for prompting, i.e.
>
> 2 packages found satisfying "system-plymouth-plugin" dependency:
> 1: plymouth-graphics-solar
> 2: plymouth-text-and-details-only
> Enter number to select [1]:
>
> Of course, the usual select-the-one-with-the-shortest-name behaviour would
> occur when using -y.

shortest-name has not been the sole distinguishing characteristic between 
two providing pkgs for a while now. We determine the best provider by 
scoring the providers based on a series of tests. The one with the best 
score wins.


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