On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 12:58 +0200, Carl-Johan Kjellander wrote: > Jakub Jelinek wrote: > > As long as the legacy programs people are installing are packaged > > as rpm, yum or other package managers can handle the dependencies > > just fine, so I don't see how is that a silent break. > > If not using a package manager, you take the responsibility > > of satisfying the dependencies yourself. > > Won't the ones making those rpms have to look into the future and > require that compat-libstdc++-XX is installed, even though that > package doesn't exist yet for the current FC version? > > Otherwise I can't see how you can make yum do the right thing for an old > app, maybe less than 6 months old even. Commercial apps probably have the biggest trouble, since they usually don't use RPMs and the installer is not usually smart enough to recommend installing a certain package. A few I've run into are smart enough to check and at least stop the install saying you need libraries foo & bar installed. Paul Berger -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
