On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 11:35:46AM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Ok, let me clarify. A plain Requires: doesn't guarantee that the Required
> package will be installed before the package Requiring it. It just means it
> either needs to be there before hand, or in the same transaction. Things
> like %post/%pre requires and PreReq help rpm in ordering the transaction to
> make sure the the things that are needed at install time are actually there,
> vs things needed at runtime.
Well, it's just so that rpm treats PreReqs and Requires pretty much the
same, the only difference is when there is a dependency cycles.
And dependency cycles with PreReqs aren't installable at all, so there
really is no difference...
Cheers,
Michael.
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