On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 19:11 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Seth Vidal wrote: > > I think the number of disputing perspectives in this thread ALONE on how > > suggests would be handles proves that it is not obvious on its face how > > suggests should be handled. > > Well, people are proposing 2 behaviors: 1. treat as hard dependencies by > default or 2. ignore by default. Why not have both? In fact that's what > Debian is doing: Recommends is 1., Suggests is 2., and of course the > default can be changed (you can choose to drag everything in or to ignore > even Recommends). So why don't we do the same in RPM and Yum? that sounds reasonable to me. honestly, I'd see any one of the three options as an improvement on the current situation, we shouldn't let uncertainty over which to choose hold us back from making any progress at all. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Fedora Talk: adamwill AT fedoraproject DOT org http://www.happyassassin.net -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
