[Yum-devel] [PATCH] Comps clarification

[seth vidal]

On Sat, 2006-02-04 at 10:28 -0500, Paul Nasrat wrote:
> 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.
> 

yah - then definitely merge in the patch. Is there any other hidden,
scary anaconda-things you have left waiting in the wings? :)

I'd rather have them all in so we know what pain is lurking.

thanks
-sv