Do I need avahi?

Marko Vojinovic vvmarko at gmail.com
Tue Jul 30 16:25:38 UTC 2013


On Tue, 30 Jul 2013 16:29:38 +0100
Tethys <tethys at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 3:30 AM, Marko Vojinovic <vvmarko at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > How can a machine know whether or not you are going to need some
> > functionality? You might not be the only user on the system, and
> > other users might need some features that you don't.
> 
> The machine doesn't know. I, however, do know. I'd like to be able to
> tell the machine what I know and how I want it to behave.

If you think you have a case there, file a RFE against RPM, maybe the
devs will listen and add support for soft dependencies. I believe that
would make everybody happy.

Oh, and do post the bugzilla number over here, I'd be interested to
follow it. :-)

HTH, :-)
Marko



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