[fab] Fw: [Bug 174307] RPM 4.4.6 is available

[Ville Skyttä]

On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 14:23 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
> 
> > And as I said before - the 'soft requires' need to have a lot of policy
> > decided on before we throw them into the tree. Not only for kickstart
> > but also for yum and policy for how things like 'enhances' will be
> > moderated in extras.
> > Doing it willy-nilly is a path to pain.
> 
> I'd argue that the rpm feature can be enabled asap/now (since, afaik,
> nothing uses it), then the technical details and policy can be hammered
> out, but that's just me.  (:

Is the "soft requires" feature just syntactic sugar for specfiles and
another way of saying Requires(hint)/Requires(missingok) or something
else?  The latter is already being used in a bunch of FE packages, but
I'm not quite up to date on how it's handled by rpm and friends in
current FCx and devel nowadays.