On Tue, 2004-09-07 at 21:51 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > tir, 07.09.2004 kl. 21.19 skrev Sean Middleditch: > > If you're alright with requesting a tool like 'rpm-depsolve', I don't > > see at all how you can argue against just using yum. ;-) > > > > Hmm... somhow using yum to install a local package feels wrong... Hmm... > think ill acctually have to write some prototype stuff, then. "Feels" wrong? How? It makes perfect sense. Nothing wrong with a separate tool either, although in the end all it would do is just invoke yum, so it (to me) makes sense to just have yum do the work. Yum itself has to handle the installation anyhow to make sure it actually works. Imagine a case where you are installing a local package foo, which provides a virtual bar, and depends on baz, which requires a package providing bar? Yum has to know about the package being manually installed to be able to satisfy the dependencies properly. An external/separate tool would pretty much be forced to take the local package, calculate its dependencies, request them from Yum, and once those are already installed, install the package requested by the user - the sort of chain above could not ever be properly resolved in this case. Again, there isn't anything wrong with yum installing local packages. It's the natural tool to do the job, and there isn't any compelling reason to do otherwise. "Feels wrong" does not count as a compelling reason, either. ;-) -- Sean Middleditch <elanthis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> AwesomePlay Productions, Inc.
