providing what they require

Matthew Miller mattdm at mattdm.org
Thu Oct 23 02:12:30 UTC 2008


On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 08:19:37PM -0500, Chris Adams wrote:
> Okay, but what is the problem?  If you want to know what requires
> libfoo.so.42 and do "rpm -q --whatrequires libfoo.so.42", why shouldn't
> it include "foo-42-13.fc10.i386" in the list if some binary in package
> foo is linked against libfoo.so.42?
> I'm not saying it isn't mostly redundant, but I don't see what the big
> deal is.  Is it causing a problem in yum depsolving or something?

I imagine it's a speed thing.

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Matthew Miller <mattdm at mattdm.org>
Senior Systems Architect 
Cyberinfrastructure Labs
Computing & Information Technology 
Harvard School of Engineering & Applied Sciences




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