On Thu, 2009-01-15 at 15:39 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote: > Bill Nottingham wrote: > > > Kevin Kofler (kevin.kofler@xxxxxxxxx) said: > >> seth vidal wrote: > >> > Conditional packages were viewed, from the outset, as something that > >> > had to go. One way or the other conditional pkgs were going to get > >> > beaten up. > >> > >> But it can't go because there's no working alternative. > > > > Well... attached is a prototype of a yum plugin to do this sort of stuff. > > ok for language conditionals... there's a few other use-cases... > > but I was just wondering that perhaps this is an area where soft/recommended > dependencies could help address (within or not in the context of the future > of comps). they don't help the problem at all, they just introduce a whole other set of difficulties as to what the default behavior should be when we hit them. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
