On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 18:03 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008, David Timms wrote: > >> Jesse Keating wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 07:54 +1100, David Timms wrote: > >>>> Currently, there appears to be no defined order for install process; > >>>> in fact of a default-ish install of 1000 packages, kernel might be > >>>> around 850 to 900 into the process, openoffice around 500. > >>> > >>> The order is determined by rpm itself, after sorting out all the install > >>> loops, the %pre/%post requirements, etc... > >> Let's say that yum asked to install certain packages, or groups that > >> met the above criterion, as 4x separate transactions. Then rpm would > >> have to obey wouldn't it ? > >> > > > > Sure, but what does that have to do with anything? > > Obviously he is looking at a problem and trying to provide ideas to > improve the situation. I assume, the fundamental idea of installing the > base dependencies first if that makes sense should be a enhancement > request to rpm instead of working around it in either Anaconda or yum. How far down the rabbit hole do we go? Certainly if coreutils is important, then why not shadow-utils? sed? dos2unix? Do we abolish Requires(pre) altogether? -- Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazqueznet@xxxxxxxxx> PLEASE don't CC me; I'm already subscribed
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