2013/5/22 Björn Persson <bjorn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > 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? > > We really should have a way for Yum and Packagekit to say "Hey, if > you're installing that, maybe you also want this?". A -devel package > and its corresponding -doc package should recommend each other for > example. They shouldn't require each other, because then they could > just as well be the same package, but usually you want to install them > together and it would be helpful to at least notify users who install > the -devel package that the -doc package also exists. > > Another example is a database server and its command line client, which > you often but not always want to install together. The server should > recommend the client, while the client might only suggest the server. > > A third example is graphical administration tools for some daemon that > are in a separate package so that the daemon can be installed without > pulling in half a desktop environment. In this case the daemon should > suggest the tools, but perhaps not recommend them. The only few times I used Suggests (in Mandriva) was to "suggest" optional, but better experience/functionality if installed, packages in non-free, but I think I never fully understood what it is supposed to mean, just that it is a Requires that does not break dependencies. > Björn Persson Paulo -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
