Can soft dependencies help to get the proper kernel-devel packages? (Was: Soft- Re: DKMS is not installing the right kernel-devel package)

[Ralf Corsepius]

On 06/12/2015 03:23 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203 at freenet.de> wrote:
>> On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>>
>>> Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo
>>
>> It doesn't matter much what FESCO says of believes in this case.
>>
>> ATM, neither is the technical infrastructure is in place (it is evolving)
>> nor are impact/consequences clear not are the prototypical use-cases of
>> soft/weak-deps clear.
>>
>> @Thorsten: I do not think, weak/soft-deps are of use in your case.
>> Unfortunatley, I do not have solution, either.

> What do you mean by the technical infrastructure for it is lacking?

E.g. /usr/bin/rpm still lacks the --what* command-line options 
corresponding to soft/weak deps.

This issue was mentioned the rpm maintainer in an FPC meeting (IIRC, 3 
weeks ago), when we were discussing soft/weak-deps but nothing seems to 
have happened since.

Therefore I just (I could have done so earlier, but have been on 
vacation) filed an RFE against rpm:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231247

Ralf