[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Comps clarification

[Paul Nasrat]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 10:20 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 01:01 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > when did we start supporting requires as a attribute of packagereq?
> > I must have missed that patch going in.
> 
> It's been the hidden, dirty laundry, anaconda-only way of hackishly
> handling language support packages like kde-i18n-* for a long time
> 

Yes, yum hasn't actually supported it, and I thought it's better to
expose the information in yum so that we can implement a plugin so
anaconda, pirut, pup, etc can enforce a shared policy.

Paul