On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:51:26AM -0500, Matyas Selmeci wrote: > Kevin Kofler wrote on Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:02:26PM +0200: > > Michael Schroeder wrote: > > > Sounds like you want weak dependencies (i.e. "Suggests" et al). > > > > In this case, I think disjunctive dependencies (default | virtual), as > > Matthew Garrett pointed out, are the right solution, not soft dependencies > > (though those would also be nice). > > > > Kevin Kofler > Functionally speaking, what is the difference between a soft dependency > and a disjunctive dependency? How can you satisfy a soft dependency if > you don't know what virtual dependency it is being used to provide? If we have: Requires: phonon-backend Suggests: phonon-backend-gstreamer What would you expect the outcome to be on a system that has phonon-backend-xine? I'd have thought that phonon-backend-gstreamer would get installed, even if you can later remove it. That's not the desired outcome. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
