Another funny update?

Rahul Sundaram metherid at gmail.com
Wed Jun 16 21:03:34 UTC 2010


On 06/17/2010 02:03 AM, JD wrote:
>
> Seems to me this is a moot point.
> Each distro, and in fact each repo, builds it's packages which end up in 
> some or many cases with different required dependencies from same 
> package built on some other repo or distro - depending on what was 
> installed on the system(s) where the provided packages were built.
>   

Fedora builds all packages in it's own clean chroot and only the
packages explicitly mentioned as a build dependency + the implicit
default would get pulled in.  It is a reproducible and predictable system. 

Rahul


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