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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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File dependencies

Posted Feb 22, 2007 15:55 UTC (Thu) by macc (subscriber, #510) [Link]

There are subtle differences
between forex RedHat and SuSE
as to how packages are named
and partitioned.


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