[Guidelines Change] Changes to the Packaging Guidelines

[Ville Skyttä]

On Thursday 16 December 2010, Jon Masters wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 23:57 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
> But how many packages nowadays require a man page reader simply because
> > they install man pages?
> 
> Well, since it's a guideline, it's worth discussion. Sure there's only
> 18 in your list, but that sounds more like a bug than a feature.
> Similarly, for docs in HTML format we could probably do with some kind
> of dependency suggestion (I'm not sure what the Fedora version of RPM
> recommended way of doing dependency level "suggestions" is now). I would
> think that would be the ideal, to recommend these things but not require
> them to be installed if it's just documentation files.
> 
> I think the policy should be to somehow recommend the additional bits,
> then you can add "but not require" in place of the existing wording.

I disagree, in my opinion even a recommendation in this context would be too 
much.  I think the line when to use recommendations should be drawn to 
something that adds features or makes software work better/more efficiently.

> Anyway, what is the current Fedora RPM way of doing suggestions? I've
> seen this stuff in SuSE, and other package managers (including RPM).

There is no support for that in Fedora's rpm.