>>Leland Ray wrote:
>> One thing that would make it easier is to make
requires more testable.
>> It would be useful to have a flag somewhere that
suggests to the
>> installation method to move the package as close to
the front of
>> installation order as possible.
>The problem is what do you do when there are multiple
>packages hinting to be "as early as possible"? What
>should the ordering be there? I don't think
imprecise >hinting is the right way to go. Better to
have the >actual requirements and then be able to sort
based upon
>those.
Ahh but the point is, right now requirements aren't
easily testable. I would like people developing rpms
to see missing requirements during their normal
testing.
So what I am suggesting is to have a way to request an
early install. Thus an rpm that didn't have all
requirements listed would be likely to fail during
development.
Where that flag goes is a really good question. If it
is part of the rpm, its too likely that people will
mistakenly ship software with the flag set. So I'm now
thinking that this isn't an rpm issue, but should be
part of the repository, once again.
>> My dream is to be able to edit
requires-additional.xml in a yum
>> repository, and have anaconda, if in a kickstart,
or yum, or any other
>> package, honor the extra requires as if they were
part of the rpm.
>>
>> Hmmm, perhaps I should wish for this on the yum
list.
>It would be more palatable if that fed directly into
a >bug database such that whenever it was used it was
>clearly indicated as a workaround for bugs in the
>packaging. I would fear that something like this
>would become accepted as a normal way to do things
and >not as an exceptional condition to work around
bugs.
I agree, it would be better if people actually fixed
their bugs.
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