On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 10:33:05PM -0600, Michael Favia wrote: > Dave Jones wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 22, 2005 at 03:22:53PM -0500, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > > > Providing 'kernel-modules' on the other hand... i don't think anything > > > requires 'kernel-modules' so it might be okay to make kernel-devel > > > provide that but i still seems to me like potential double-meaning to > > > what 'kernel-modules' means since kernel-devel doesnt actually include > > > a single kernel-module. > > > > > > Maybe Dave Jones can be poked into making a comment about this. > > > > Adding either of the provides seems like a rather ugly hack. > > up2date already has the smarts to installonly the -devel package, > > so I'm of the opinion yum should be fixed to do the right thing too. > > Jeremy is rebuilding yum as I type for tomorrows rawhide to > > take care of this issue. > > Yes but the real question is "Where does this information belong?" I > dont think that these things should be managed ad-hoc by each competing > package manager but instead internalized into the packages themselves > somehow for scalabiltiy and adaptability purposes. It has often been suggested to add a new rpm tag for this purpose. E.g. you could have UpdateMode: (installation|alwaysupgrade) or AutoUpgrade: no rpm 4.4 would be a good candidate to get this in. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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