On Friday, 23 February 2007 at 20:47, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>On Wednesday, 21 February 2007 at 17:43, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>Eric S. Raymond wrote:
>[...]
>>>* Allowing RPM development to drift and stagnate -- then adding
>>> another layer of complexity, bugs, and wretched performance with yum.
>>RPM indeed drifted but I dont think it actually stagnated. Anyway
>>http://rpm.org for more details.
>>RPM doesnt do automatic dependency resolving.
>
>Actually, that sentence is not exactly true. Given a rpmdb with all
>available
>packages, rpm can suggest packages to satisfy missing dependencies.
>
Pointing out libraries or packages is different from automatically
downloading and actually resolving them.
Not very much. It actually resolves them (after all, rpm operates on rpmdb),
it just can't download them.
Regards,
R.
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