dnf whatprovides and library files

Matthew Miller mattdm at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 10 03:13:21 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 10:12:58AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
> While that does make sense it ends up being less than helpful for the
> average user to have to be aware of that. I dare say most end users
> don't care if a programmer has to jump through hoops to give a result
> which they feel "appropriate". :-)

Yeah. Basically programmers get to make the decisions in the absence of
anyone else to program stuff, though. :) 

A 'usrmove provides' seems like a reasonable suggestion for a DNF
plugin — cover the normal symlinks in Fedora.



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Matthew Miller
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