Re: package-get-base to RPM spec converter

Saturday, 27 June 1998

        Oliver Graf <ograf(a)fga.de&gt; writes:

...
 It's sort of a loop: gnus requires rmail requires tm requires
gnus,vm,rmail
 etc.

 In my eyes the following is a standart install scenario:
 The user wants a mail-reader, so he selects one of gnus, vm, or rmail.
 No he also wants support for MIME encoded messages. He finds tm and tries to
 install it. But RPM (or package-get) will tell him that he also needs rmail
 and vm, simply because tm also supports them... 
These are the packages which 'hurt' my dependency 'feeling'. All these
packages are primary utility packages to some other packages
(mailreaders). And cause we have more than one mail/news reader they require
all mail/news readers they support. And this is the thing I think is wrong (or 
perhaps not elegant ;-)

I've also attached a file which shows how it should be (as I think about
requirements).

Regards,
  Oliver.

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