PackageKit in Fedora 15 (beta)

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 18:23 +0200, Florian Festi wrote:
> 
> > > I have to defend Seth here ... in the last flamewar on this theme he
> > > admitted that introducing Suggests/Recommends would be question of half
> > > an hour (maybe he didn't mean it literally) and he would be willing to
> > > do it in the moment FESCO (or Board, or whoever is appropriate to make
> > > the decision) would tell him so
> 
> > I think if anybody can come up with a exact description how they should 
> > look like and how they should work and can create some evidence that 
> > this is want we need and want implementing them is not the problem[*]. 
> > Until now no one has come up with a proposal and enough confidence.
> 
> Suggests: has been in Mandriva for several years, being used actively by
> packagers and users, without any major problems. Yes, you can draw up
> all kinds of theoretical objections and considerations, but to me the
> fact of long-term practical usage rather seems to trump those. :)


The implementation details into the pkg managers have been repeated
issues for all pkg managers that have them implemented.

We're not making it up for our health.

-sv