File dependencies
Posted Feb 22, 2007 0:40 UTC (Thu) by
midg3t (subscriber, #30998)
In reply to:
Joey Hess by ldo
Parent article:
ESR's goodbye note
Searching the package namespace for a dependency is much more efficient than searching through the file list of every package. More importantly, as mentioned by branden, it allows automated dependency resolution to install the right package.
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