On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, R P Herrold wrote:
On Thu, 20 Sep 2007, Panu Matilainen wrote:
Anybody out there who would to miss the --aid option if it were gone?
Suse doesn't seem to ship with a "solve database" and neither does
RHEL/Fedora these days (we're not interested in distros released years ago
now), so obviously a very large userbase is surviving without it.
*cough* Centos has and ships the db, of course, and it is useful in solving
dependencies for packaging and build roots.
CentOS 5 doesn't have it either, only the older versions do.
I would miss it if gone.
Ok, noted - this is why I asked in the first place...
That a userbase survives without a something, would
be like an argument by analogy, that we all should run Windows on the
desktop, as most of the globe survives perfectly well without FOSS desktops.
If --aid were the only depsolving mechanism available, the users wouldn't
be surviving these days. Seriously. Like said, having rpm make good
suggestions on missing dependencies is a nice feature but the current
mechanism requiring a *huge* solve database that gets outdated as
soon as a single package is updated simply doesn't cut it.
- Panu -
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