On 06/10/15 09:35, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 09:26:36AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: >> I wonder why they left it up to the user to determine symbolic links >> are involved and not followed. Oh, well. > It's because what's being searched is the database of files provided by > a package. The package doesn't actually provide the symlink (that's in > the separate `filesystem` package), and so there's no match. To figure > it out, the depsolver would have to also look at all of the other > packages for symlinks and decide if they're relevant to your query. > (Or, it could have a special kludge in place for this particular case, > as yum does. But getting rid of kludges like that was, for better or > worse, a design goal.) > While that does make sense it ends up being less than helpful for the average user to have to be aware of that. I dare say most end users don't care if a programmer has to jump through hoops to give a result which they feel "appropriate". :-) Anyway, now that I know I won't make that mistake again....for at least another week. :-) -- Sorta what I want to say when folks habitually complain about Fedora - https://youtu.be/ZArl8fTfub4 -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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
