On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 06:17:39PM +0200, Tomas Orsava wrote:
Hi!
We'd like to propose a new functionality for dnf: When a user tries to
install a package XYZ and dnf doesn't find it, dnf would recommend them
alternative packages. These offered packages would advertise that they are
an alternative for XYZ using a specially formatted Provides tag.
For example, packages `python2-requests` and `python3-requests` would both
have the following tag:
Provides: alternative-for(python-requests) = %{version}-%{release}
You could probably achieve that behavior with normal provides
we have today and a DNF plugin.
Just guessing. And people who care for such a feature could just
get the plugin, you know...
P