On 18 May 2017 at 11:03, Nico Kadel-Garcia <nkadel(a)gmail.com> wrote:
It's not just packages with explicitly published dependencies.
It's a
lot of configuration tools with implicit dependencies, whose authors
didn't imagine at the time of authorship that basic utilities like
"/sbin/ifconfig". These tools may be entirely local and outside of
RPM's, or may never have bothered to declare what they thought was an
implicit provision as part of running on an RPM based Linux. For
example, I note on the older systems I have immediate access to that
ifconfig is used in the python "virtinst" and "uuid" modules.
If there are implicit dependencies what about converting them to
explicit so they will be easier to find in future?
Regards,
Rafal