On Fri, 2006-06-16 at 17:23 -0400, Bill Nottingham wrote:
Jeremy Katz (katzj(a)redhat.com) said:
> > Still, why does it need computed again?
>
> What if something has changed since the last time the daemon ran? There
> are cases which could end up installing/updating packages which you had
> since done a removal around. And in any case, as long as the interface
> is doing the updating, you have to have done all the hard stuff around
> finding "what are the updates"
But, if nothing has changed, why would it need to recompute dependencies (which
it currently does...)
how do we know if nothing has changed? Are we going to take a checksum
of the rpmdb?
-sv