PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 07:57:37AM +0200, Matej Cepl wrote:
> Dne 25.4.2011 21:26, Ilyes Gouta napsal(a):
> > Christoph Wickert provided an analysis in
> > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=699263
> 
> Which again lead to my broken gramophone song … we suck for not having 
> Suggests/Recommends. Ceterum autem censeo, Carthaginem esse delendam.

+1 ... although it would also have to work the "rpm way" and not force
the user to make a choice at the point of installation.

A simple 'Recommends: <package list>', known about by RPM but
otherwise ignored by RPM, would allow tools that knew they were
talking to a real person to make a sensible list of recommendations
based on the packages the user already had installed or was about to
install.

Rich.

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