Re: yum-compatible rich dependencies
Rex Dieter wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Orion Poplawski wrote:
>
>> koschei is now reporting:
>>
>> Dependency problems nothing provides (sni-qt(x86-64) if
>> plasma-workspace) needed by qt-x11-1:4.8.7-11.fc25.x86_64
> ...
>> Is this a dnf/koschei issue or with the above conditional requires?
>
> I assume koschei (and friends).
>
>> Are these even allowed yet in Fedora?
>
> I also assumed so, since these rich deps are being used for langpacks
> already
Unsurprisingly I guess, just received a bug filed today about how yum
doesn't work with the rich dependencies either:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1317481
So as a followup , here's my findings:
* There are quite a few tools in fedora that still utilize yum code for
various things (including mash for composing updates), so knowingly making
things incompatible at this point is probably not an option.
* yum obviously supports 'Requires:' tag, and recently grew support for
'Recommends:', so one cannot safely use Rich dependencies in combination
with either
* yum does not support Supplements/Enhances, so using Rich dependencies with
these appears safe. It is my understanding that recent langpacks support
for f24 is utilizing the Supplements tag
-- Rex