Kaixo!
On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 10:10:17AM -0500, Bryan Paxton wrote:
> 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 ?
Just as you told it :)
Provides: mail-transport-agent
> *nod*
Is the first time I read this "*nod*" what does it mean ?
>> 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.
Maybe.
The priority however is nice, (and reminds me of Slacwkare :) ).
It can be very useful for DrakX, to decide which packages to drop and which
not, with the slider (you know, that 0%-100% thing)
> Suggestions: variable would be the better way to go, which
> I'll cover in my part 2 of improving RPM : )
That is only a naming problem, the idea remains the same: give a clue about
which packages may be useful, but not required.
For example when installing some networking stuff required are: net-tools,
netkit-base, suggested are pppd, adsl stuff, etc.
when installing pppd kdenetworking and gnome-networking may be suggested
(for kppp and gnome-ppp), but not required (you can install and run ppp
without them).
Seems nice to me.
Then rpmdrake could have a config option to automatically install suggestions
(that is consider them same way as requires) or not.
> "How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I
> only coded it."
> -- Linus Torvalds.
I like what he told about backups; and I really agree with him, having
experienced a serious hardware problem and having been able to save much
of my works thanks to having put it on ftp servers.
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