On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 17:26 -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > On Mon, 2004-09-06 at 21:38 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > > > Is there any plans for integrating rpm with yum - so that rpm would ask > > "you need dependancy foo, bar, baz.so in order to install this package, > > shall i ask yum to fetch them for you? (y/n)" > > Instead of integrating yum into rpm, just use a tool (such as yum > itself) to install your packages instead of rpm. I don't know offhand > if yum already supports this, but if not, it should. ;-) > > The graphical tools like system-install-packages and friends should also > then integrate with yum. > > I'm sure the maintainers will accept patches for such a feature. ;-) The question becomes how to do this sensibly. yum install /some/path/to/an/rpm that's possible except I get an equal number of requests for: yum install /some/file/that/some/package/in/a/repository/provides. it's not impossible to check for but it means searching harder. the biggest limitation is time. I'm one guy. -sv
