On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:08 -0500, seth vidal wrote: >anaconda does disable normal dep checking if it can't resolve something, >that's true - however, it doesn't remove stuff. Let's consider an example. You have an FC2 system with Acrobat 7 installed, which uses libcurl.so.2. You update to FC3. What does anaconda do with the curl-7.11.1-1 package and hence /usr/lib/libcurl.so.2? Does it not remove it and replace it with a new package that no longer provides libcurl.so.2? My understanding is that anaconda will remove the old curl package and install a new one, and that the Acrobat reader will no longer run. Are you suggesting that that's that _not_ what happens? That anaconda doesn't remove stuff? That out-of-Core packages don't ever get broken by upgrades? By FC5, anaconda should handle Extras properly and everything should be fine. We can start moving packages to Extras in a controlled fashion and cut Core down to a minimum -- that makes a lot of sense. What _doesn't_ make sense is doing it right now in a mad rush. Especially if we're not going to achieve the goal of cutting the i386 install to 4 CDs anyway -- regardless of the question of whether that's a worthwhile thing to be attempting in the first place. -- dwmw2
