On Wednesday 22 May 2013 23:33:05 Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
TBH I don't think we need Suggests AND Recommends. I can never
remember the difference on Debian. Wouldn't most people would be
satisfied with a single way to suggest useful packages?
Thinking about it, the terminology adopted by "comps" is clearer
and provides a generalization of this -- if someone select something
they get:
- Mandatory packages (cannot be deselected)
- Default packages (selected, but the user may deselect)
- Optional packages (deselected, but the user may select)
Borrowing similar logic for rpm we could have in the spec file:
Name: acme
Requires: foo, foo-utils
InstallDefault: bar, perl-bar, python-bar
InstallOptional: baz, baz-ldap
Now it would be classic to use "--with/--without" as command line flags,
but it's already taken :-(
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