* Claes Bäckström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [Jan 19. 2007 13:11]: > > I am a firm believer in that rpm packages should depend on the > functions they need. No rpm package should take for granted that > something is installed in the "base" pattern. I also hate it when > single rpm packages depends on patterns (not sure if this exist in > openSUSE) they should depend on rpm packages.
Fully agreed. We do not want to undermine package dependencies with patterns. Pattern should help to define 'building blocks' to ease software management. > > And also thinks that a pattern should not depend on rpm packages that > other rpm packages included in the pattern also depends on, as there > is no need for that. This is not a problem technical speaking it's > just harder to maintain and confusing to people. Agreed. To get this right in every case probably needs tools support to - detect transitive dependencies - detect sub-patterns (if a subset of packages listed in a pattern effectively matches an already existing pattern) Klaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
