Ainsi parlait Lundi 13 Mai 2002 17:29, Dmitri Tikhonov :
> On Mon, May 13, 2002 at 07:17:48PM +0400, Borsenkow Andrej wrote:
> > > This is all very well; however, should not chkconfig list basesystem
> >
> > as
> >
> > > one of its dependencies, then (it does not)?
> >
> > basesystem is assumed to be always installed so this is strictly
> > speaking redundant.
>
> I understand that this is how the Mandrake install is performed. However,
> one of the virtues of using RPM packaging is that one can specify what
> packages a package depends on (OK, this part _is_ redundant). If it is
> known that ntp RPM requires basesystem, why not make ntp package aware of
> that? This will surely eliminate questions such as mine here.
The same way that no package requires rpm: it is considered an implicit
dependency.
Having such list available somewhere, tough, could be useful. gc, could you
add it to RPM-HOWTO ?
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