On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Jan wrote: > However - what I think most of us would like is a simple service that > gives us the FULL dependency list, not just the first level. A list like > that can of only be generated if you already have all the necessary > libraries - the developer(s) of the given RPM should do this.
I would like to win the lottery, as well -- but in the real world ... ... if the packager or builder of a given RPM did this, you would either (1) be prevented from incrementally adding software using shared libraries; or (2) required to install hugely bloated static linked applications which each carry local copies of the the same libraries around, or (3) suffer the 'dll hell' which --nodeps and --force can put a Linux system in, with conflicting libraries and reminiscent of the problems over on the Windows 9x side of computing. -- Russ Herrold -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
