On Tue, 2008-03-04 at 05:45 +0100, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 13:52 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote: > > Hans de Goede (j.w.r.degoede@xxxxxx) said: > > > Basicly: yes > > > Because: > > > -adding a Requires: /usr/share/fonts/foo/bar.ttf line to my package is trivial > > > > ... and causes additional megabytes to be downloaded for every transaction. > hyperbole. My view on this: the *.ttf deps un-hid a flaw in current yum > transaction handling. > Where's this bug in yum transaction handling? There's nothing that breaks, there's just downloading of the filelists which can be circumvented by not having this file-dep. I'm trying to save everyone bandwidth and time. There's no bug in yum that's being hidden by this. > > Note that actually addding these files to the repodata *breaks any dependency > > solver that tries to use it. > I don't see this. If this breaks depsolvers, these depsolvers are > broken. It doesn't BREAK them it requires that you change them to accommodate this change. These depsolvers include: yum, apt, smart and probably yast. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
