On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 04:33:19PM +0100, Phil Knirsch wrote: > During the review of basesystem we came upon a rather interesting fact > which some might already have seen and wondered about. > > The packages basesystem, filesystem and setup have a rather odd and not > necessarily intuitive dependency order: > > basesystem Requires: filesystem setup > filesystem Requires: setup > setup Requires: (nothing) > > So the final install order after properly ordering those is: > > setup > filesystem > basesystem > > which imo is exactly the opposite of what i'd expect. Take the > description of basesystem e.g. where it explicitly says: > > "Basesystem should be the first package installed on a system, and it > should never be removed." > > And for filesystem: > > "Filesystem contains the basic directory layout for a Linux operating > system, including the correct permissions for the directories." > > So imo the order should be: > > basesystem > filesystem > setup Well, basesystem contains no files at all and only contains the requires for filesystem/setup, so if you remove the requires, the package is completely useless. Jakub -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
