From: Robert Scheck (scheck_at_etes.de)
Date: Tue Nov 06 2007 - 19:02:30 CET
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2007 19:02:30 +0100 From: Robert Scheck <scheck@etes.de> Message-ID: <20071106180230.GE22461@intranet.hq.stgt.etes.de> Subject: Re: [suse-sles-e] Latest YOU update introduces new dependency for giflib
Hello all,
On Tue, 06 Nov 2007, Klaus Kaempf wrote:
> * Marcus Meissner <meissner@suse.de> [Nov 06. 2007 18:19]:
> > I think the problem here is:
> >
> > - mono-core was updated to fix security issues (in the BigInteger implementation).
> > - mono-core has a "Recommends: libgdiplus", a soft dependency.
> > - unfortunately the packagemanagement stack considered this as a good idea to install
> > the libgdiplus RPM and its requirement giflib.
>
> Thats how 'Recommends' is defined. See
> http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies#Weak_dependencies
I know what weak dependencies are...I'm a rpm5.org member/guy.
> > This is shortcoming of the updater I think :/
>
> I don't think that applying different dependency semantics for installs
> and updates is a good approach.
Why is it a shortcoming of the updater? I didn't change any configuration
so this seems to be handled somewhere else - maybe in YaST? AFAIK the weak
dependencies are not the same as implemented in rpm5.org, but I still can
not image, that rpm itself does such things not at installing but during an
update of a package? IMHO the cause is within the update stack, otherwise
the implementation of the weak dependencies within rpm looks heavily wrong.
> > You can deinstall both libgdiplus and giflib again.
>
> Right.
I can. But I first was forced by YOU to put a SLES DVD into the box.
Greetings,
Robert
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