Rahul Sundaram wrote:
No, but you can - and do - make it difficult for 3rd party packagers
to build RPMs that work across multiple distros/versions, and for
users to install such packages. It is silly if you don't see that, or
that Red Hat doesn't care if fedora alienates the potential users of
RPM and 'system-config-xxx' based distributions.
In this case, the packager is deliberately overriding the dependency
mechanism and not using file based dependencies that make it work across
the distribution. There is really no excuse for not using the tools
provided. VMWare packaging is just broken and suggestions on what they
should do should be taken to them. Not here. Save yourself the trouble.
But what I was trying to point out initially is that failing the install
because one part has unsatisfied dependencies is counterproductive
because you may not need to run that part.
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