[Yum-devel] YumDepSolver tsCheck cases

seth vidal skvidal at linux.duke.edu
Thu Feb 15 23:39:13 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-02-15 at 18:33 -0500, James Bowes wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> > Okay, I'm losing my mind on this so I'm going to write pseudo-code of
> > what should be happening for this dep presentation. Everyone who can
> > understand this, please respond:
> 
> I can understand it!
> 
> Seriously, it all seems sane. Though it did get me thinking: We
> install/remove etc "physical" packages, but during depsolving, we're
> concerned with just the provides/requires, etc. I wonder if there is
> anything to be gained by mostly ignoring the actual packages during
> depsolving, and only looking at the prco. This way, you might remove a
> package, but if a given provides comes from something else, you won't
> have to care about it. I'll see if I can actually make any sense of
> this, but I'll do it much later :)
> 
> -James
> 
> PS you're going to write any missing bits using Test-Driven Development,
> right?
> 

I wish I understood what that means. I've found that my ability to
understand programming jargon is next to non existent.

-sv





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