To Require or not to Require?

[Andreas Schwab]

Michael Schwendt <mschwendt at gmail.com> writes:

> No external package can build with new features of the new "foo-libs" package
> prior to making that package available in the buildroot.

How is the contents of the buildroot relevant to "yum install bar"?

> If "foo" is the base package of "foo-libs", and this -libs package has
> added symbols needed by programs in package "foo", an older release
> of "foo-libs" would not suffice. On the contrary, all programs
> linked with an older foo library will continue to work.

How is that different from the above?

Andreas.

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