Allegedly, on or about 28 May 2015, Joe Zeff sent:
Back when I first installed an nVidia card, akmod-nvidia depended on
kernel-devel (or maybe kernel-headers; I forget which) but that wasn't
part of the rpm's list of dependencies. You just had to know that it
needed to be installed, or find somebody who knew about it. That, at
least, is no longer an issue, although it remained that way over
several versions of Fedora. I don't know why it happened, or why it
took so long to correct,
This sort of thing has been an issue with installing software on
computers pretty much since they were invented: The programmer had a
plethora of stuff pre-installed on their computer that the general user
did not. So they never saw any errors about something being missing,
and remain unaware of the situation for quite some time.
but it's hard to see how anybody other than the package's
maintainers
were responsible for the issue.
Can't argue with that. Particularly as, over time, users must have made
comments that went back to the coders that a dependency wasn't being
dragged in, automatically, as it ought to.
I would have thought, though, that some of this was automated, so
compiling a package would automatically list all dependencies used,
rather than rely on a human to add a list of things that are needed to a
configuration.
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