On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 07:36:53 +0000, Michael A. Peters wrote: > On 01/30/2005 11:10:14 PM, seth vidal wrote: > > > > > so it's a net loss for users who for I'd be willing to wager >95% of > > the > > time do not EVER use debuginfo rpms. > > > > and for the 5% of the time they need them they can simply do: > > yum --enablerepo=base-debug install foo-debuginfo > > Wouldn't that result in a dependency issue on a yum update though? > IE foobar debug package would require a specific version of foobar, so > if they enabled base-debug just to get foobar-debug, then later an > update to foobar is released, wouldn't the foobar-debug package prevent > yum from updating foobar because of dependency - if base-debug was not > enabled? Current debuginfo packages don't have such a dependency on a base package. -- Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg) - Linux 2.6.10-1.741_FC3 loadavg: 0.08 0.10 0.09