To Require or not to Require?

Andreas Schwab schwab at redhat.com
Thu Aug 11 13:24:30 UTC 2011


Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> writes:

> The difference is that the subpackages may need the new symbols immediately
> when installing the packages, whereas future builds of external packages
> would link with the latest library version that has been released before
> and is the one available in the build system's buildroot.

I don't understand.  How is the contents of the buildroot relevant to
"yum install foo"?

Andreas.

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