On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 02:10:20PM +0100, Jeroen van Meeuwen (Kolab Systems) wrote:
Actually it's an explicit instruction from YUM to RPM, where YUM
uses the 'installonly_pkgs' configuration directive so that it knows
to issue this slightly different RPM command to RPM for a certain
list of package names.
This is exactly why this mechanism can't (should not) be used for
Ruby*; the list of packages that would need to be included in this
list of packages to only install (not update, not upgrade) would be
enormous, and subject to change quite frequently.
We can create a plugin that does the decision making for us, rather than
maintaining a list of packages. Package name accounting shouldn't be a
reason to do away with a very powerful feature of gems.
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