On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 15:12 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Tue, 12 May 2009 14:52:16 -0400 (EDT) > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > > is this making any sense? > > Definitely. However, I have gotten into the habit after > encountering the same sort of thing many times of using > yum search or a gui tool like yumex to search for all > things asterisk (or whatever I'm interested in) and > I just install all packages that seem vaguely related > in the descriptions :-). > > Usually makes for less surprise. > > I notice one thing that some packages do is create a > dummy package with the base name of the product and > make it depend on all the other packages, but I've > never been able to deduce the rules for that - I suspect > personal whim of the packagers. This is called a metapackage, and I've been told they're frowned on in Fedora. I've no idea why, they're extensively used in Mandriva and I always found them invaluable. Fedora does use the concept of package groups quite extensively in similar ways, and yum makes it easy to install a complete 'group' of packages. yum grouplist doesn't seem to show any kind of Asterisk group, though. :\ -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list
