Distributions going smart & bugfixes?

Jeff Johnson n3npq at mac.com
Fri Jan 9 14:27:56 PST 2009


On Jan 9, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Michael Jennings wrote:

> On Friday, 09 January 2009, at 08:29:26 (+0200),
> Axel Thimm wrote:
>
>> The ancient PreReq (by now replaced with modern Foo() syntax) and
>> friends tags were designed to reorder such loops/collections. At the
>> very least when these came into play a million years ago it was a
>> "feature, not a bug".
>

Looks like Greek to me.

The dependency
	Requires(pre):
is not at all a replacement, either syntactically or semantically, for
	PreReq:

The replacement for
	PreReq:
is
	Requires:

The two are synonyms.

All dependencies, not just PreReq:, are fully used when computing  
package order.

73 de Jeff
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