On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:16:59PM +0200, Benny Amorsen wrote: > How about simply adding a flag to rpm packages, saying that they are > useless for anything except as dependencies? Most libraries would fit > that. If you want to go this [*] route, why have a flag? Just make your yum plug in consider all packages which only install things into /lib and/or /usr/lib + optionally docs. > It would be yet another thing for package maintainers to get right, of > course. Presto, there's that problem solved. :) [*] crazy, if you ask me, but no one did -- Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx <http://mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
