[Mageia-dev] Packaging errors to fix

Wed Mar 16 15:53:55 CET 2011

On 15 March 2011 19:06, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
+> We did have some troubles with loops at building time when we
+> bootstrapped the distribution, and we clearly wanted to remove them as
+> much as possible.
+>
+> A loop at runtime is potentially the sign of a loop at build time too.
+> So we should try to avoid them IMHO.
+>
+> In the case of dbus, yes, the requires are correct, but the ordering
+> seems wrong during the test. So either there is a bug in what ever jbj
+> is running, or we do use Requires(post) in a wrong way, or that's a
+> change somewhere. In any case, there is still the others problem to look
+> at :)
+
+Sure, it would be best.
+But we cannot handle everything at every level.
+There're many hidden dependancy that will broke.
+
+Eg: if you do a minimal install with just basesystem, then install some
+random GUI package, you'll got caught in strange bugs due to having
+no font, ...
+Which is usually installed by task-x11 which got installed though rpmsrate.
+We won't make every GUI package depends on task-x11 however.
+
+And there'll be a lot of other hidden dependancies and the like.
+