22 Jul
2017
22 Jul
'17
4:59 p.m.
On Jul 22, 2017, at 10:45 AM, Alice Wonder alice@domblogger.net wrote:
If a package on my system wants a CentOS texlive as dependency it gets it, there are texlive packages installed.
That’s not how the RPM dependency system works.
Unless you’ve got a package that *provides* either the package name or path, RPM has no idea about it. It doesn’t go out and look to see if there are executables in the $PATH of the user installing the software.
-- Jonathan Billings billings@negate.org