Matthew Garrett wrote on Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 05:00:28PM +0100: > 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. I see. So 'Suggests' means it gets automatically installed (unless it explicitly conflicts with something already install I presume?), but can be removed without breaking the package it was brought in for (unless no other package provides the phonon-backend dependency). Do I have that right? -Matyas -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
