[Yum] yum handling of requires and prereq

[Jens Petersen]

Florian La Roche wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 04:46:33PM +0400, Kir Kolyshkin wrote:
>> Package A prerequires package B, and package B requires C.

The concrete example under discussion is:
"scim-libs requires gtk2 > 2.8" and "gtk2 requires pango >= 1.9.1-1".

>> Question:
>> Does that mean that A prerequies C, or, in other words, should C be 
>> installed before A?
> 
> C could be installed later on for this example.

Why?

Jens