On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 09:57 -0700, Adam Williamson wrote: > On Tue, 2011-04-26 at 18:23 +0200, Florian Festi wrote: > > > > I have to defend Seth here ... in the last flamewar on this theme he > > > admitted that introducing Suggests/Recommends would be question of half > > > an hour (maybe he didn't mean it literally) and he would be willing to > > > do it in the moment FESCO (or Board, or whoever is appropriate to make > > > the decision) would tell him so > > > I think if anybody can come up with a exact description how they should > > look like and how they should work and can create some evidence that > > this is want we need and want implementing them is not the problem[*]. > > Until now no one has come up with a proposal and enough confidence. > > Suggests: has been in Mandriva for several years, being used actively by > packagers and users, without any major problems. Yes, you can draw up > all kinds of theoretical objections and considerations, but to me the > fact of long-term practical usage rather seems to trump those. :) The implementation details into the pkg managers have been repeated issues for all pkg managers that have them implemented. We're not making it up for our health. -sv -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
