On Sat, 21 May 2005, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
On Sat, 2005-05-21 at 07:58 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:
Bryan, that's more a apt/yum issue than it is a repository issue. If you think repository maintainers should divide their repository in all possible permutations of what people might want (and what cross-requirements exist between these repositories), you have not maintained a big repository. Believe me, this functionality should go into Yum (apt has hte functionality, but apt is dead anyway).
Have you talked to Seth about this? I know he is always looking for input/help in many YUM developments, at least based on his posts/blog.
There were 2 patches for Yum at some point, but according to Seth the functionality is not important or useful.It may change with the new plugin system though, let's hope. Talk to David Parsley and Dries if you know what happened.
In the meantime, I'll be having people complaining about the fact the rsync or lftp is upgraded, and people complaining that RHEL4 does not have gaim 1.3.0 or something else they require and ship for older distributions. We can't have it both ways, smart is the solution for this.
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