> Although I only know the basic usage of RPM, there is one feature which I
> would like on any package manager. That is, to -in a more or less
> automatical way- install the available packages require for the
> package been
> installed to work properly.
I have experienced the same problems, but would also hate to see every
package include all of the programs upon which it depends. The issue I see
is simply the package, in many cases, could be excessively large. One
solution would be to include an easy way to extract the list of
requirements. Possibly a database that contains the package name, version
and all of the packages it requires, and locations from which they may be
downloaded. Then a program could be used to download the databases from the
packages to verify all of the required libraries or other files are
installed on your system. If they are not, ask if you want to download all
the files to satisfy the dependencies. In a way similar to the redhat
installer when you try to install a package that you have not installed all
the required libraries.
Chad
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