Prereqs are different from requires only in that a PreReq is guaranteed to be installed before the package that contains the PreReq. PreReq's are used only to order packages, otherwise PreReq's are exactly the same as a Requires: dependency.
Yep. In my experience, at least for FC2 (and most earlier releases) that both Prereq and Requires(post) *does* make the Prereq'd item get installed first.
<warren> jbj, is PreReq exactly equivalent to Requires?
<jbj> warren: except for loop snipping (loops are different problem) yes, identical.
<jbj> when loops are snipped, PreReq is honored, but all Requires: in loop are ignored.
<jbj> again, loops need to be solved in other ways.
Looks like I need to go back through all the specs I edited in the past year and see if I need to revert any PreReq to Requires changes...
Warren
