Move Evolution to Extras?

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Wed Apr 5 15:28:24 UTC 2006


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 ;)

	- Panu -




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