On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:57:37AM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
Dne 25.4.2011 21:26, Ilyes Gouta napsal(a):
Christoph Wickert provided an analysis in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263
Which again lead to my broken gramophone song … we suck for not having Suggests/Recommends. Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam.
+1 ... although it would also have to work the "rpm way" and not force the user to make a choice at the point of installation.
A simple 'Recommends: <package list>', known about by RPM but otherwise ignored by RPM, would allow tools that knew they were talking to a real person to make a sensible list of recommendations based on the packages the user already had installed or was about to install.
Rich.