Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (297 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

"Claes Bäckström" <claes.backstrom@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I am a firm believer in that rpm packages should depend on the
> functions they need. No rpm package should take for granted that
> something is installed in the "base" pattern. I also hate it when

I agree - and if this is not the case, it's worth a bugreport.

> single rpm packages depends on patterns (not sure if this exist in
> openSUSE) they should depend on rpm packages.

There's no such case.

> And also thinks that a pattern should not depend on rpm packages that
> other rpm packages included in the pattern also depends on, as there
> is no need for that. This is not a problem technical speaking it's
> just harder to maintain and confusing to people.

I'm not sure I understand you here.  Could you rephrase this, please?

> I hope we can agree on this things so we know how to move on.


Andreas
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