Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Callum Lerwick wrote:
On Wed, 2008-09-03 at 14:12 -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
Applications that consist of multiple packages, such as the game
example, should be designated as a group rather than a looped
dependency.
Actually a proper fix is to implement the per-package "explicitly
installed/pulled in as a dep" flag that has been discussed several times
in the past, and is already implemented (thus proven) in the "aptitude"
apt front end.
We must address this user interface problem if Fedora is to be a shining
beacon of open source light in the looming dark future of closed
DRM-laden content delivery services such as Steam, Xbox Live and
PlayStation Network.
That works for a Mom and Pop desktop but doesn't work as a developer's
workstation. When developing software you might need a library that
does Foo. Look on the system, hey, I can use libFoo! A few weeks
later, when you remove Gnome-Foo from your system because your shiny new
application does the job, your app suddenly can't find libFoo....
This implies also that you installed Gnome-Foo-devel for whatever
reason, and that it happened to require libFoo-devel. Otherwise you
probably installed libFoo-devel by hand in order to use libFoo, and
since libFoo-devel depends on libFoo, libFoo wouldn't be removed in this
case.
(Worse is if your working on an app sporadically and have to figure out
why it's broken not knowing when it became that way.)
Are link errors really that obtuse?
So if we track this some way, there needs to be a way to disable it.
Naturally :-).
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