On Sat, May 30, 2009 at 12:53:07PM +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Or consider "Recommends: B >= 1.2" - what exactly does this mean? The > package does something "better" if B is installed too, but what if we > only have B 1.0 installed/available. Does the package even work with B > 1.0? If it doesn't work with B 1.0, should rpm emit an error in such a > case? If the version doesn't match, should B be pulled in anyway? As far as I can tell, in Debian a versioned suggestion is still just a suggestion. If B = 1.0 were installed, it would be up to the package A to detect this and do the right thing. But I agree this is a nasty corner case which would need to be made explicit one way or another. RIch. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-df lists disk usage of guests without needing to install any software inside the virtual machine. Supports Linux and Windows. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-df/ -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
