On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:54 -0400, James Antill wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:58 -0400, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > An alternative would be to provide a wrapper script that runs yelp if > > present or otherwise tells the user to install it, and have applications > > require the wrapper package. We could either give the wrapper script a > > different name and patch all applications to run that name or rename the > > real yelp executable and have all callers go through the wrapper. I > > don't see any way to avoid patching all the application packages to > > require the wrapper package rather than "yelp", given that we want > > installing "yelp" to actually install it but installing an application > > to only install the wrapper. > > With the latest compare_providers¹ this should be fairly easy. We just > have yelp-nothing (Provides: yelp) which installs a simple binary that > says yelp isn't there and a "yelp" package which is the real thing. > Then "yum install yelp" will install the pkg. yelp, and "yum install > blah" will install yelp-nothing as a dep. I feel like taking advantage of a yum feature to make the "yelp" name do something different as a dependency than as a "yum install" argument is a hack and will only cause confusion down the road, whereas changing the application dependencies to yelp-nothing would be the right thing to do. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
