On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 11:55:43PM +0200, Michael Scherer wrote: > Le mercredi 22 mai 2013 à 21:06 +0200, Björn Persson a écrit : > > Jan Zelený wrote: > > > what are the changes that you would like to see in the foreseeable > > > future (say 2-3 years) and why would you like to see them (what would they > > > help you with)? > > > > Dare I say ... (puts on a helmet) ... Recommends and Suggests? > > It would take more then 2 to 3 years to make sure everybody understand > the same thing for Suggests and Recommends. > > Without explaining why a package is suggested or recommended, people > cannot make informed choice on it. So in the end, people will either get > too much, or they will not get enough. And if you had suggest/recommend > by default, you bloat the system, and if you don't, then that's useless. > > I am not against the idea, but that's not a technical issue. > Technically, Suggest can be added to rpm quite fast, there is patch > floating around. TBH I don't think we need Suggests AND Recommends. I can never remember the difference on Debian. Wouldn't most people would be satisfied with a single way to suggest useful packages? Rich. -- Richard Jones, Virtualization Group, Red Hat http://people.redhat.com/~rjones libguestfs lets you edit virtual machines. Supports shell scripting, bindings from many languages. http://libguestfs.org -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
