Re: Move Evolution to Extras?

[Rex Dieter]

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.

-- Rex