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 ;)
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