On Thu, 2013-05-23 at 02:20 +0300, Oron Peled wrote: > On Wednesday 22 May 2013 23:33:05 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > > 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? > > Thinking about it, the terminology adopted by "comps" is clearer > and provides a generalization of this -- if someone select something > they get: > - Mandatory packages (cannot be deselected) > - Default packages (selected, but the user may deselect) > - Optional packages (deselected, but the user may select) > > > Borrowing similar logic for rpm we could have in the spec file: > Name: acme > Requires: foo, foo-utils > InstallDefault: bar, perl-bar, python-bar > InstallOptional: baz, baz-ldap > > Now it would be classic to use "--with/--without" as command line flags, > but it's already taken :-( I'm pretty sure that's precisely the distinction expressed by Suggests and Recommends, FWIW. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | identi.ca: adamwfedora http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
