On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 10:19 -0600, Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, seth vidal <skvidal(a)phy.duke.edu> said:
> On Fri, 2005-02-25 at 16:03 +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Right. Anaconda doesn't actually remove the out-of-Core package itself
> > -- nobody suggested that it does. But it still doesn't actually _work_
> > if the libraries on which it depends have been removed.
>
> so you're really only dealing with obsoletes.
You are dealing with the fact that anaconda can't handle non-Core
packages and that it can break any installed non-Core package (including
packages that were previously in Core but now are not).
but it doesn't break them in the since that it's non-functional - it
just makes them go away for the first boot.
> oh and anaconda has no way of dealing with closed source
binaries really
> anyway - on any version of anaconda, ever.
Red herring - anaconda has no way of dealing with any kind of source and
it doesn't know (or care) about the difference in the license or where
the package came from (other than "current Core"). Throwing the "closed
source" arguement is just trying to ignore the problem or blame it on
someone else.
Not really, the open source ones could feasibly be included in fedora
core and therefore could deal with it. The closed source items cannot.
-sv