Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

[Björn Persson]

Jan Zelený <jzeleny at redhat.com> wrote:
> On 15. 11. 2014 at 14:51:32, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> > Jan Silhan wrote:
> > >> 3. The page says "The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very
> > >> weak relations or the other way round" does dnf do that? or not?
> > > 
> > > DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that would be too hackish
> > > behavior.
> > 
> > It's not "hackish", it's "configurable". Letting the user decide whether
> > they want to have weak dependencies installed or not is part of the whole
> > point of having them.
> 
> I believe there is a misunderstanding there. It should be possible to "move 
> the bar" of what's going to be selected for installation. I believe what Honza 
> was referring to is that dnf will not support cases where it would swap the 
> semantics of weak and very weak deps (i.e. treat Recommends as Suggests and 
> vice versa).

Yeah, doing both at once would be rather crazy. The quoted sentence
says "or", not "and".

Björn Persson
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