[5485] in RedHat Linux List
Re: Some things that could use attention
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Nov 21 18:29:26 1996
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 1996 14:13:23 -0500 (EST)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
Reply-To: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
cc: Paul.Gortmaker@anu.edu.au
In-Reply-To: <199611211643.DAA11321@leonard.anu.edu.au>
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I've noted your other points which aren't already addresed by the errata.
On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Paul Gortmaker wrote:
> XFree86-devel should depend on: XFree86
> XFree86-fonts should depend on: XFree86
Why? You can build statically linked X apps when you just have XFree86-devel
installed. The fonts shouldn't require XFree86 -- you may want to use
the fonts for another app.
> Fvwm95-icons should depend on: Fvwm95 (or fvwm)
So you shouldn't be able to use Fvwm95-icons if you use twm?
> sendmail-cf should depend on: sendmail
> sendmail-doc should depend on: sendmail
sendmail-cf probably makes sense, I don't think sendmail-doc does though.
> rpm should depend on: cpio *IMPORTANT*
True.
We tend to use dependencies for packages that won't work w/o having something
else installed, not for cases where that something else is recommended.
> 15) Access to the descriptions in the rpm packages during the initial
> install/selection phase would be useful. This is one of the advantages
> of the Debian install method over RH. For example, I had no idea what
> "TheNextLevel" was (okay, so sue me). A pop-up dialog window with
> the contents of "rpm -q -i foo.rpm" would be very nice. (Perhaps
> there is already a way to do this that I overlooked...)
You can press 'F1' (or perhaps F2) during the package selection and see the
description (and the line at the bottom of the screen mentions this).
Thanks for the comments.
Erik
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