On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 15:15:30 -0500 Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ville Skyttä wrote: > > > Agreed. But in case a dependency "loop" like this between some > > packages is not avoidable > > In many cases where foo Requires foo-bar and foo-bar Requires foo, > IMO, there shouldn't *be* a foo-bar subpackage at all. One example > off the top of my head: > openoffice.org > openoffice.org-libs > What's the point of the separate -libs subpkg? > I agree. Another example that I was thinking about: rpm and popt. They *are* both built from the same SRPM (rpm). rpm is always in the system, and it requires popt in the exact version. Why not build *single* rpm containing them both??? Jarek
