On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Pablo Saratxaga wrote:
> Kaixo!
>
> On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 08:34:20AM -0500, Bryan Paxton wrote:
>
> > // Priority of a package. This is really only used in dselect to set up default
> > // packages to be installed.
> > Priority: extra
>
> That is a good candidate for addition into rpm, indeed.
>
> > // This I don't like, dselect(and only dselect) will not install said package
> > // if these packages aren't installed. dpkg and apt really pay no attention to
> > // this variable.
> > Recommends: mail-reader, perl5 | perl
>
>
> [provides/requires "mail-transport-agent"]
> > This is the only part of the .deb control file I wanted to cover in this post
> > since it's the most valuable part of dpkg that could be implemented into RPM.
Ok I know you can Requires: mail-transport-agent in the mutt spec file.
But how do you dothe Provides: mail-transport-agent in the sendmail spec file ?
> It is by no means something specific to deb format.
> rpm can jsut as well do it too (and indeed that is used, however I agree
> not as systematic as in Debian, maybe because REd Hat started with providing
> only one package per task, and that feature wasn't needed).
> Another problem is, while it can be more or less easy to define such
> keywords for a single distrib, as in the case of Debian, it gets more hairy
> when it comes to rpm packages that can be used on several distributions.
> (in ther words, the choice of the strings to use is something to discuss
> at a Linux standardization level, imho)
*nod* This can and should be further taken into LBS.... But I felt the
discussion should was more than appropriate for cooker.
> the only two things I see from your example that the deb format has and not
> the rpm format are the "priority" and "recommends" tag.
> And I think it would indeed be a good thing to have them in standard in rpm.
Hrmmmmmm don't really like recommends, this is one of the things that most users
hate about dselect. Suggestions: variable would be the better way to go, which
I'll cover in my part 2 of improving RPM : )
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