On Wed, 3 Aug 2005, Feizhou wrote:
If you go to the start of this thread, I said:
I'm trying to build all the SRPMS from http://www.linux911.cl/GFS-CENTOS4/, and have found a real dependency mess, including some circular dependencies.
...that is hardly an authoritative source for RedHat source rpms...
Not authoritative, but it's clear that the SRPMS were build directly from RedHat CVS.
You've been barking up the wrong tree trying to build from a different set of source rpms that is obviously NOT provided by RedHat.
I've suggested previously that you should check facts before casting aspersions.
Plus your really unique proposition that xxx-devel must not depend on xxx whereas the all Linux distributions do just that ...
Having xxx-devel depend on xxx is not even consistent within RHEL4. See, e.g. kudzu and kudzu-devel.
Rather than attack me personally, or appeal to authority, perhaps you could consider whether a "dependency" is logical or not. But never mind, please just let this issue lie.
--- Charlie