Greg DeKoenigsberg wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jul 2006, Jesse Keating wrote: >> We've been selectively backporting the parts from upstream that make sense. >> There are some changes that have gone into the upstream RPM releases that >> we're really not comfortable consuming, such as soft requires (suggests, >> recommends, enhances) stuff like that. I think there are many more examples >> of feature sets that we're really not comfortable with, I don't have a list >> in front of me. > > That "soft requires" is one of the key differences between rpm and deb. > If jbj is trying to get rpm and deb closer, are we getting in the way of > that perhaps-worthy goal by dragging our feet? IMO, there are a few features from upstream rpm that I would love Fedora to have, among them including "soft requires", sane(r) handling of dangling symlinks and unowned directories, automatic dependancy generation for libtool archives (and potentially corolary to that, pkg-config bits). -- Rex _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board-readonly mailing list fedora-advisory-board-readonly@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board-readonly
