RPM Soft dependencies (Was: Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting)

Seth Vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Jun 1 14:41:32 UTC 2009



On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Juha Tuomala wrote:

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> On Monday 01 June 2009 16:59:40 Seth Vidal wrote:
>> if you run:
>> yum install foo-app
>> and it drags in:
>> bar-app
>> and
>> foo-lib
>>
>> Then you've not explicitly chosen to install bar-app.
>>
>> With the availability of the yumdb information we should be able to make
>> remove-with-leaves know more about the intent.
>
> Why not store a for every pkg how it got installed, as
> a direct human request or as a dependency?

Until recently we had no place to store that information. That's why.

-sv




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