[Mageia-sysadm] Decision needed on mgaapplet and adding Requires.

[Maarten Vanraes]

Op woensdag 17 augustus 2011 00:53:01 schreef Michael Scherer:
> Le lundi 15 août 2011 à 17:03 -0400, David W. Hodgins a écrit :
> > Regarding https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2317
> > which was raised as a result of
> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2097
> > where kipi-plugins-expoblending could not be installed using
> > mgaapplet, until the package hugin (a newly added requires)
> > was in the same repository.
> > 
> > Either mgaapplet must be changed to allow requires to be satisfied
> > 
> >  from Core Release, or newly added requires must be copied from
> > 
> > Core Release to Core Updates Testing, and then pushed to Core
> > Updates, when testing has been completed.
> > 
> > If mgaapplet is to be modified, this must be given a high priority,
> > as it is now blocking another update.
> > https://bugs.mageia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2353
> 
> I would modify mgaapplet, personnaly.
> 
> Bloating hdlist with uneeded rpms is wrong.

imho the best way would be to make urpmi's --update features allow non-update 
media for dependencies of update media's packages and suggests... but atm i 
have no time to fix this myself.