Software Management call for RFEs

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le Jeu 23 mai 2013 01:28, Ravindra Kumar a écrit :
>>> 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.
>
>> The problem I see here is that you can boot the same OS on different
>> hypervisors or (with P2V) transfer it from physical to virtual.
>> Should RPM start (un-)installing things when this happens?  Could a
>> reboot result in broken dependencies?
>
> No, I was not thinking of reboot/RPM changing anything already
> installed. I was referring to DB solution as static because
> it would stick one configuration forever. Instead, I was
> thinking of RPM to always base its decision on the environment
> where it is running at that point of time and provide a way
> to override RPM behavior so that advanced users can make a
> choice.

This is the logic windows installers use but I don't think it's the
correct one. The installer should never change behaviour based on a system
state that can change over time (unless this state is under its control
which is not the case here)

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Nicolas Mailhot