Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le jeudi 04 septembre 2008 à 09:31 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi a écrit :
> Thomas Moschny wrote:
> > 2008/9/4 Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com>:
> >> With that said, there needs to be a way for a developer to tell yum not
> >> to prune away leaf packages if they want.
> > 
> > % yum install libFoo
> > 
> > this might look like a noop, because libFoo is already installed, but
> > it would switch the bit for libFoo from 'installed-as-dependency' to
> > 'first-class-installed'.
> > 
> That's a good point.
> 
> I'd much rather have a switch to turn the feature on or off per machine
> than to have to remember this per library, though.  Apps can have a
> myriad of dependencies.  Should the developer have to do sudo yum
> install libFoo for every one of these?  Everytime he grows a new
> dependency?

Quite frankly the argument that the developper could not write a spec
file was already poor (because specs are a piece of cake next to
makefiles and autofoo), but the argument he can not care about the deps
his app uses is ridiculous (both from a technical and legal POW).

Please don't take it bad, but developping is more than copying snippets
of code, and a developper that can not care about his software
environment is not worth the name.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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