On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 07:29:35PM -0700, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Wed, 2010-08-18 at 22:43 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 08:02:13AM -0400, seth vidal wrote: > > > I am a libguestfs user and I'm complaining. It means I have to schlep > > > down a bunch of extra info on every update of libguestfs and that sucks > > > on my bandwidth. > > > > This is basically a hard problem to solve. We rely on copying files > > directly from the host into our appliance, so we rely on file > > dependencies. We could change it so we didn't need file dependencies, > > but that would cause silent breakage on updates. > > There are plenty of other kinds of breakage that cannot be caught by RPM > dependencies. Why do you insist on using RPM dependencies to catch this > kind, rather than testing and communication with the maintainers of the > packages you depend on?
So you're proposing that all maintainers of every dependent package should have to email me before they can move any file around? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones New in Fedora 11: Fedora Windows cross-compiler. Compile Windows programs, test, and build Windows installers. Over 70 libraries supprt'd http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/MinGW http://www.annexia.org/fedora_mingw -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
