On 10/14/07, Richard Hughes <hughsient@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I've come across a problem: The aim is for a user to be able to install > either: > > * system-config-printer, pirut and yum > * system-config-printer, PackageKit and yum > * system-config-printer, PackageKit, pirut and yum > > Unfortunately system-config-printer hardcodes: > > Requires: pirut > > when it should probably either > "Require: /usr/sbin/system-install-packages" or require some other > identifier that both PackageKit and pirut could provide. > > I don't think PackageKit can just "Provide: pirut 1.1.4" as this > prevents us installing both pirut and PackageKit, nor can we just do > "Obsoletes: pirut, Provides: Pirut" in the PackageKit spec file. > > If system-config-printer requires /usr/sbin/system-install-packages then > we should probably use alternatives so that PackageKit and pirut can > both provide this file. > > Advice on how to patch s-c-p and also how to setup alternatives is > welcomed. I can't really submit PackageKit into the fedora repo until > this issue is fixed. system-standard-package-manager? I'm not sure how open Fedora is to this naming scheme, but in Debian, alot of packages provide things like system-www-browser and system-terminal, or similar names. I'm not booted up into debian atm, so i can't tell you what they are exactly. The goal is for the admin to define a default editor, and in a university or other setting, the default editor can be emacs or vi for everything, or even nano, because that's what they taught all the students to use. -Yaakov -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
