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.
Rahul