On Tue, 2006-11-14 at 00:05 +0000, Karanbir Singh wrote: > When an rpm is built for CentOS-Extras or CentOS-Plus, is it safe to > assume that people using these repo's only use them for specific rpms ( > eg, someone with a stock CentOS install might use the CentOS-Plus repo > for php-5 and only php-5 ) or are most people enabling the entire repo ? > > This question comes from the idea of when building a package, should a > rpm, hosted in CentOS-Plus link against only [base]+[updates] and only > use the minimum possible set of packages from [centosplus] ? So as to > have a situation wherein you can use selective packages from > CentOS-Plus, while not needing any support stuff from there ( eg. > postfix-mysql in CentOS-Plus should link against mysql-4.1 since thats > whats in [base] rather than mysql-5 which is in CentOS Plus ) > > This does create a risk that we might end up creating packages that are > themselves incompatible with other packages from the same repository, > but work fine when used with the [base] packages for the same functionality. > > The other option is to have the entire CentOS-Plus repo enabled for any > packages built for the same repo, which might mean that using php-5 from > CentOS-Plus needs MySQL-5 and pgsql-8 from CentOS Plus also installed. > I'd say centos-plus can rely on centos-plus in total and base+updates. either you have the repo enabled or you don't. Fence sitters can just suffer. -sv