[ATrpms-users] Selective yum updates and perl-MythTV

[Axel Thimm]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 08:57:25PM +0200, Thomas Moschny wrote:
> On Thursday 30 August 2007, Axel Thimm wrote:
> > The problem is when repo A build libfoo with one set of features (like
> > no mp3) and the other repo B with another set (like with mp3
> > support). Bothe packages will have the same Provides:.
> 
> The package in repo B could could (additionally) provide "libfoo.so.1(mp3)" or 
> similar, and some client package could depend on that, no?

Could yes, but play this through, this is the part wehre I wrote that
embeding this informations is impractical:

 o it isn't done automatically by rpm
 o you can't know what set of features to setup like this
 o if you do it cleanly every feature needs this, so you end up with
   dozens of virtual feature provides that are manually maintained.
 o what about less trivial features like "build against glib 2.13.x
   and pango w/o font rastering"

So you open up a can of worms that way.
-- 
Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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