On 05/30/2009 10:23 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > One obvious one I maintain for Mandriva is Elisa (which just got renamed > to Moovida). If certain other packages are involved, it gains very > useful features...but it works perfectly well without them, and some > users may not want those features. A soft dependency covers this > situation pretty perfectly; by default you get the extra dependencies > installed so the features will be available, but if you're someone who > needs to optimize disk space or number of installed packages you'll have > configured urpmi not to install soft dependencies so you won't get them, > and if you didn't do that but you later decide to remove one of the soft > deps, you can. What is the behaviour when a package with soft deps on another package is upgraded and the soft dependency is currently not installed? -Toshio
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