Yum dependencies troubles

[Lars]

thanks for answering!

cheers
lars



seth vidal wrote:

> On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 13:54, William Hooper wrote:
>> seth vidal said:
>> > On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 12:10, Lars wrote:
>> >
>> >> anyone can tell what the package rpmdb-fedora actually does? i know it
>> >> has a copy of all rpms, but my system behaves the same with or wihout
>> >> it. so im asking myself for a long time whats the need of it?
>> >>
>> >
>> > It's not used for yum at all anymore.
>> >
>> >
>> > IT used to make it quicker to get a hold of some of the older headers.
>> 
>> Isn't it still needed for using "--redhatprovides" and "--redhatrequires"
>> with the rpm command?  Not sure if it helps with "--aid" also or not.
> 
> 
> It is still used for those  - but it's not used for YUM at all.
> 
> That's all I said.
> -sv
> 
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