Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (56 mails)

[Michael Schroeder <mls@xxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 06:16:11PM +0000, Benji Weber wrote:
> On 06/12/2007, Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > At the beginning I thought libzypp was making everything more complex, but
> > > I think PackageKit is also asking the wrong question.
> >
> > Yes, it sounds like they are oversimplifying dependency resolution.
>
> Hmm, sent this earlier, seems to have vanished into the aether, sorry
> if it arrives twice.
>
> Bear in mind that the whole point of packagekit is that it has to be
> possible to implement it with fairly disparate package management
> systems.
>
> As I understand it RPM packages both provide and require things
> (ignoring other types of dependency), and provides are used to resolve
> requires. However, as I understand it debian packages only have
> requirements which must be packages.

Not true, debian has virtaul requires like rpm. The even have a
dependency "OR", which makes things even more complicated...

Cheers,
  Michael.

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