On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 07:30:16PM +0200, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Hi, > What is the usage of an empty RPM ? What it is for ? > For example, on Fedora 20: > > rpm -qpl libvirt-1.1.3.3-2.fc20.x86_64.rpm > shows: > (contains no files) It pulls in the various dependant packages that are required for a "full" libvirt install. Previously all the code was in that one package but people wanted the ability to install individual pieces. So those pieces were split off into sub-RPMs, but we still wanted to keep a way to install everything as other people were already used to doing and thus avoid breaking existing dependancies. Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://autobuild.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://live.gnome.org/gtk-vnc :| -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
