> > Not a real solution, but as a workaround I've kludged this kind of thing > > by rolling my own "fake" rpm that only has a bunch of "provides".
> well, that's one way to do it... > > I'm thinking there's a better way. We could do something like: oh, clearly, as a packager, you definitely shouldn't be doing what I suggested. the technique I suggested has been useful, though, working around various rpm requirements from redhat. for instance, redhat has decided that if I have X11 libs, I therefore need X11 fonts. Not unreasonable on the face of it. OTOH, on headless servers running java apps, X11 libs are necessary for sun's jvm, but the system will never need fonts. danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 ESCC/Internet2 Joint Techs July 19-23, 2009 - Indianapolis, Indiana http://jointtechs.es.net/indiana2009/ _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
