Hi, Spot, Thanks for the note! I don't yet know how to "look at what packages were used in the buildroot," but I'll try to figure that out. Meanwhile here's my best guess at resolving these: http://juliusdavies.ca/uvic/csc490-2009-fall-dmg/manual-deps.html yours, Julius On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 10:35 AM, Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 11/18/2009 12:31 PM, Julius Davies wrote: >> I put together a list of all pertinent "Provides" entries on the FC11 >> i386 DVD that can be satisfied in more than one way. The list is >> pretty small (25 entries) since I discarded things that never show up >> in "Requires". Any tips on how I should choose which package to >> depend on for what I'm doing (analyzing licensing between a package >> and its dependencies). > > We really should clean these up. While it is possible to have multiple > packages provide the same component, in practice, it should be treated > as a conflict. > > For your testing, I would look at what packages were used in the > buildroot when the dependent package was built. > > Btw, the php-cli/readline issue has been addressed in F11+ (F10 is EOL > shortly, so I didn't bother there). It now links to libedit instead. > > Fedora 11: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/php-5.2.11-2.fc11 > Fedora 12: http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/php-5.3.0-7.fc12 > > ~spot > -- yours, Julius Davies 250-592-2284 (Home) 250-893-4579 (Mobile) http://juliusdavies.ca/logging.html _______________________________________________ Fedora-legal-list mailing list Fedora-legal-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-legal-list
