On Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 03:38:55AM +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Rahul Sundaram wrote: > > If you have decided you are going to do something different with Zif > > anyway, you might as well as work with the zypper team and see whether > > you can make something out of it. So much of what we do in Fedora is > > built around yum though and I don't know what you have planned but go > > through years of subtle bugs in a new dep resolver stops being funny > > quickly. > > Unfortunately, zypp has some design flaws of its own. In particular, it > spawns the rpm command line as an external process for some operations > instead of using librpm as it's supposed to (yet other operations use the > library). libzypp is actually a library on top of libsatsolver (now renamed to libsolv). If you want a lightweight package dependency solver you should probably use libsolv directly. (It also contains python bindings and a simple python demo program which uses a single rpm transaction to do the work.) Url: https://github.com/opensuse/libsolv Cheers, Michael. -- Michael Schroeder mls@xxxxxxx SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF Jeff Hawn, HRB 16746 AG Nuernberg main(_){while(_=~getchar())putchar(~_-1/(~(_|32)/13*2-11)*13);} -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
