Differences between Koji and mock buildroots

[Rex Dieter]

Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:


> Then 'mock' and 'buildroots' should 'Recommends:" based installations
> disabled by default.

This probably highlights why guidelines are needed, to clearly document how 
they work.

In short, there are 2 levels of weak dependencies,


Recommends:  Weak, by default the dependency solver shall attempt to process 
the dependency
Suggests:    Very weak, by default the dependency solver shall ignore them

See also http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Dependencies#Weakdependencies

-- Rex