[Yum-devel] yum command tree

[Michael Jennings]

On Saturday, 15 May 2004, at 09:41:17 (-0400),
seth vidal wrote:

> I could see downloading the BuildRequires and the src package(s) you
> requested - not so much on the actually building of stuff.

Exactly.  I think yum's most useful role is as a depsolver, and I
believe it would be extremely helpful as a build depsolver.  Plus, it
shouldn't take too much effort given that the basic dependency engine
carries over pretty well.

> but I might be willing to take patches from others....

Just about anything but Python and C++, and I'd be game. :)

Michael

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