On 2013-09-11, 09:36 GMT, Ian Malone wrote: > Can someone explain what the consequences of a 'soft dependency' would > actually be and how it would be different from putting those files > into a sub-package? (Which may or may not work depending on whether mc > is able to cope dynamically with that.) See http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html (section 7.2 for definition of Suggests and Recommends). And of course, all this matter only if yum, PackageKit, etc. know about these suggested/recommended packages and have some way how to deal with them. Debian apt* programs have either option to always follow/not-follow these soft-dependencies, or they will just select for installation all packages on which the selected package(s) Depends and then nicely ask user whether she wants to install also suggested/recommended packages. Matěj -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
