On Thu, 2005-07-14 at 00:22 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote:

Hi,

I need yum-arch on RHEL4, yum does not come with RHEL4 so I took the CentOS package, but this one requires a yumconf package (satisfied by centos-yumconf) which I thought was pretty strange.

Why does one require a yumconf package uberhaupt ? Why are we limiting a generally useful package to CentOS (or a system that provides yumconf) ?

I know you can fix it in several ways, but I'm more concerned about having the dependency there in the first place. I always considered dependencies much like strictly necessary to use this package, and in this case it does not seem to be very mandatory. (config files you can add yourself easily one way or the other if you require them)

My vote would go for removing the dependency. (now that I have installed centos-yumconf on RHEL4 and disabled all the functionality)

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Well ... the purpose for having a separate configuration file is SO it can be more flexible and a third party app can also provide a separate configuration.

Having a separate configuration file was requested, and not making it required can lead to people installing yum and not having a configuration. The way it is now, a RHEL_config.rpm file (or a taolinux_config.rpm file, or a wbel_config.rpm) could easily be produced and use the original yum as well.

So, I would argue that it makes the original yum more (an not less) usable :)