On Friday, 23 February 2007 at 20:47, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote: > >On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 at 17:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > >>Eric S. Raymond wrote: > >[...] > >>>* Allowing RPM development to drift and stagnate -- then adding > >>> another layer of complexity, bugs, and wretched performance with yum. > >>RPM indeed drifted but I dont think it actually stagnated. Anyway > >>http://rpm.org for more details. > >>RPM doesnt do automatic dependency resolving. > > > >Actually, that sentence is not exactly true. Given a rpmdb with all > >available > >packages, rpm can suggest packages to satisfy missing dependencies. > > > > Pointing out libraries or packages is different from automatically > downloading and actually resolving them. Not very much. It actually resolves them (after all, rpm operates on rpmdb), it just can't download them. Regards, R. -- Fedora Extras contributor http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/DominikMierzejewski Livna contributor http://rpm.livna.org MPlayer developer http://mplayerhq.hu "Faith manages." -- Delenn to Lennier in Babylon 5:"Confessions and Lamentations" -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
