On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 7:10 AM, Tim Lauridsen <tim.lauridsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > soft-deps (Suggests/Recommends) is really hard to handle at the depsolver > level. A depsolver need to now the hard ones, not stuff like 'it would look > very nice to have pink bracelet to my little pony'. It is hard to make good > decisions based on that, a asking the user every time is not a good solution > IMO. You will need to take a popquiz every time you what to install a > package. > I can see that the information can be useful at a high level gui or in some > kind of appstore. People there have bought 'foo' have also bought 'bar'. But > at the lowlevel like rpm/yum is not very useful, because we don't have the > needed infomation to make a good decision. I wouldn't think it's that hard to implement. When installing a new package, simply treat Suggests as Requires; when removing a package just ignore Suggests completely. Only upgrading adds a little complexity - if new version Suggests something that the old version doesn't, treat it as Requires (so that I get new optional pony accessories automatically), otherwise ignore it (so that I can throw away that optional pink bracelet and not have it come back every time I update). -- Iain. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
