RPM roadmapping

Michael DeHaan mdehaan at redhat.com
Tue Jul 31 16:53:49 UTC 2007


Till Maas wrote:
> On Friday 27 July 2007 14:40:40 Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
>   
>> Not everybody is on rpm-maint list and we'd like to hear the wishes of
>> (Fedora) developers/packagers too. So: what have you always wanted to do
>> with rpm, but wasn't able to? Or the other way around: what you always
>> wished rpm would do for you? What always annoyed you out of your mind?
>>     
>
> I am missing "soft dependencies", e.g. the possibility to make a package 
> suggest which other packages may enhance it, e.g. with plugins. Afaik in 
> debian packages it is called "Suggests:".
>   

+1.

I would really like to see this, especially for apps that are plugin 
oriented / modular.

It's one of the few things I miss from Debian.

> Regards,
> Till
>   




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