seth vidal wrote:
On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:28 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
Jeff Spaleta wrote:
Your logic also hits on another packaging policy limitation in Core which doesn't strongly delineate between hard requirements and optional functionality which depends on an additional package to be installed to be functional.
AFAIK, the latest (or soon to be included in rawhide?) version of rpm will support new tags: Requires(hint): and/or Requires(missingok): to allow for such soft requirements.
Yup. Votes for getting a newer rpm version into rawhide sooner than later to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174307 ;)
If there is a decision to support this stuff it might be a good idea to make sure we're converging on the same mechanism that the opensuse folks are.
What is Opensuse using/doing then? Requires(hint) and Provides(hint) are just an rpm mechanism for allowing soft dependencies, anything beyond that is basically a policy question what to do about those in the depsolver.
- Panu -