What Seriously Ails Fedora

[Joe Zeff]

On 05/28/2015 05:26 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
> Listed? Where? And again, why obligated?

In the package itself.  Back when I first installed an nVidia card, 
akmod-nvidia depended on kernel-devel (or maybe kernel-headers; I forget 
which) but that wasn't part of the rpm's list of dependencies.  You just 
had to know that it needed to be installed, or find somebody who knew 
about it.  That, at least, is no longer an issue, although it remained 
that way over several versions of Fedora.  I don't know why it happened, 
or why it took so long to correct, but it's hard to see how anybody 
other than the package's maintainers were responsible for the issue. 
Personally, I consider that making sure that the list of dependencies 
for a package is correct is part of keeping that package current, so I 
consider that the maintainer is obliged to deal with such things as part 
of their job because I can't see how anybody else could reasonably be 
expected to do it for them.