On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 1:18 AM Jack Aboutboul jack@almalinux.org wrote:
On May 20, 2021, at 20:58, Michel Alexandre Salim michel@michel-slm.name wrote:
My pipe dream (doable, but I probably want to wait for the DNF -> microdnf rewrite dust to settle) is to be able to declare dependencies between repos.
e.g.
epel-release recommends (repo(PowerTools) if centos-stream-repos) => this signals to DNF that, hey, when epel-release is installed, flip PowerTools on, and if likewise PowerTools recommends another repo, it gets transitively enabled as well.
Not for nothing but this would probably make alot of people happy. Especially those running their own local repos for stuff that need to pull things in from elsewhere.
Don't you dare! The dependency resolutions really need to be done on a package by package basis, especially since it's very difficult to predict which third party repos any one repo might require. Compounded by the complexity and instability of "Modular" packaging, it's especially likely to break python RPM dependencies. Older python modules can be incompatibile with newer modules released *after* they were published and are unlikely to be patched in time to refine those dependencies. Been there, done that, yesterday trying to resolve dependencies to build an awxkit RPM.
I can't force people to avoid sweeping changes, but it would be yet another reason not to use CentOS 8 as predictably unstable and deployment fracturing.