Re: Get rid of file requires outside of the primary paths

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:29:35PM -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 22:43 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:02:13AM -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> > > I am a libguestfs user and I'm complaining. It means I have to schlep
> > > down a bunch of extra info on every update of libguestfs and that sucks
> > > on my bandwidth.
> > 
> > This is basically a hard problem to solve.  We rely on copying files
> > directly from the host into our appliance, so we rely on file
> > dependencies.  We could change it so we didn't need file dependencies,
> > but that would cause silent breakage on updates.
> 
> There are plenty of other kinds of breakage that cannot be caught by RPM
> dependencies.  Why do you insist on using RPM dependencies to catch this
> kind, rather than testing and communication with the maintainers of the
> packages you depend on?

So you're proposing that all maintainers of every dependent package
should have to email me before they can move any file around?

Rich.

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