On 11/18/2009 12:31 PM, Julius Davies wrote:
I put together a list of all pertinent "Provides" entries
on the FC11
i386 DVD that can be satisfied in more than one way. The list is
pretty small (25 entries) since I discarded things that never show up
in "Requires". Any tips on how I should choose which package to
depend on for what I'm doing (analyzing licensing between a package
and its dependencies).
We really should clean these up. While it is possible to have multiple
packages provide the same component, in practice, it should be treated
as a conflict.
For your testing, I would look at what packages were used in the
buildroot when the dependent package was built.
Btw, the php-cli/readline issue has been addressed in F11+ (F10 is EOL
shortly, so I didn't bother there). It now links to libedit instead.
Fedora 11:
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/php-5.2.11-2.fc11
Fedora 12:
http://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/php-5.3.0-7.fc12
~spot