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Re: [zypp-devel] How to get a packages' depends and requires from libzypp
  • From: Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 19:49:56 +0100
  • Message-id: <200712061949.57215.coolo@xxxxxxx>
Am Donnerstag 06 Dezember 2007 schrieb Benji Weber:
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. If more than one package can
provide something they have to require a metapackage, which is still a
valid package. So listing the packages a package requires makes more
sense on debian systems.

No, this is not true. Debian packages can require "bash | tcsh | zsh", which
rpms can't.

Greetings, Stephan
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