On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 01:43:53PM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > On Fri, 2011-09-16 at 19:31 +0200, Miloslav Trmač wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 7:26 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On 16 September 2011 17:36, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > >> Here is how yum does comparison between multiple package providing the > > >> same thing: > > >> http://yum.baseurl.org/wiki/CompareProviders > > <snip> > > > In Zif, I'm doing something like: > > ... > > > > I don't particularly care how the best provider is selected, but > > having different tools use different rules is not acceptable. > > having different tools is not acceptable. Especially when one of them is > not even remotely covering the use cases of our actual users. > > I think I'm going to suggest to fesco that all non-yum depsolvers be > removed from the distribution. It just creates more work than it does > value. > > If someone wants to ship a depsolver in their own repo on fedorapeople, > that's fine but providing it in the distro is just a mistake. Is Zif a SAT solver? We could really use a SAT solver to replace the current yum depsolver. Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones Read my programming blog: http://rwmj.wordpress.com Fedora now supports 80 OCaml packages (the OPEN alternative to F#) http://cocan.org/getting_started_with_ocaml_on_red_hat_and_fedora -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
