[2288] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: Athena RPM problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Fri Nov 6 19:38:15 1998
To: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>, linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "06 Nov 1998 19:33:42 EST."
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Date: Fri, 06 Nov 1998 19:37:55 EST
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> RPM assumes that if X depends on Y and you ask it to install both at
> the same time, the order doesn't matter.
In that case, the install script for X should not assume that the
install script for Y has already been run. It's poor to assume that
the installer is the only path for people adding these RPMs to their
systems, or we might as well have just used track.
