On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:19 -0600, Chris Adams wrote: > Once upon a time, seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxx> said: > > On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:03 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote: > > > Right. Anaconda doesn't actually remove the out-of-Core package itself > > > -- nobody suggested that it does. But it still doesn't actually _work_ > > > if the libraries on which it depends have been removed. > > > > so you're really only dealing with obsoletes. > > You are dealing with the fact that anaconda can't handle non-Core > packages and that it can break any installed non-Core package (including > packages that were previously in Core but now are not). but it doesn't break them in the since that it's non-functional - it just makes them go away for the first boot. > > oh and anaconda has no way of dealing with closed source binaries really > > anyway - on any version of anaconda, ever. > > Red herring - anaconda has no way of dealing with any kind of source and > it doesn't know (or care) about the difference in the license or where > the package came from (other than "current Core"). Throwing the "closed > source" arguement is just trying to ignore the problem or blame it on > someone else. Not really, the open source ones could feasibly be included in fedora core and therefore could deal with it. The closed source items cannot. -sv
