On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 19:07 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Actually we have several things that are not hard requires in > > scriptlets. I can't think of any that would be better served by having > > a Suggests(post) off the top of my head, though. > > Indeed, those are different, they're "run this if it's installed, but we > don't have to do anything if it isn't, because it means it doesn't need to > run in the first place". It doesn't make sense to Suggests(post) anything > there. > > Kevin Kofler > Conceivably though you can have a scenario where if a suggested package is present, you'll want to make use of it in the %pre section of the suggesting package, and fail gracefully if it isn't there. So Suggests: isn't enough, you'd need to order it so that if you choose to install the suggestion, it gets installed prior to the suggesting package, hence Suggests(post). -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating
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