Allegedly, on or about 28 May 2015, Joe Zeff sent: > Back when I first installed an nVidia card, akmod-nvidia depended on > kernel-devel (or maybe kernel-headers; I forget which) but that wasn't > part of the rpm's list of dependencies. You just had to know that it > needed to be installed, or find somebody who knew about it. That, at > least, is no longer an issue, although it remained that way over > several versions of Fedora. I don't know why it happened, or why it > took so long to correct,
This sort of thing has been an issue with installing software on computers pretty much since they were invented: The programmer had a plethora of stuff pre-installed on their computer that the general user did not. So they never saw any errors about something being missing, and remain unaware of the situation for quite some time. > but it's hard to see how anybody other than the package's maintainers > were responsible for the issue. Can't argue with that. Particularly as, over time, users must have made comments that went back to the coders that a dependency wasn't being dragged in, automatically, as it ought to. I would have thought, though, that some of this was automated, so compiling a package would automatically list all dependencies used, rather than rely on a human to add a list of things that are needed to a configuration. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.9.10-100.fc17.x86_64 #1 SMP Sun Jul 14 01:31:27 UTC 2013 x86_64 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. George Orwell's '1984' was supposed to be a warning against tyranny, not a set of instructions for supposedly democratic governments. ZNQR LBH YBBX -- users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
