Software Management call for RFEs

Ravindra Kumar ravindrakumar at vmware.com
Wed May 22 22:16:55 UTC 2013


> libsolv/yast does it ( if I understood correctly ).You can have some
> virtual provides that exist as fake packages in the db, and then have a
> package have a requires on it. So it cannot be installed if the hardware
> is not here.

Having a fake package in DB makes it very static. I think a
dynamic (evaluated each time rpm commands are run) implementation
will be more useful for the cases like P2V and V2V.

Thanks,
Ravindra


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