On Thu, 2014-02-20 at 14:44 +0000, Colin Walters wrote: > On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 7:27 AM, Florian Festi <ffesti@xxxxxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > > We are currently working on adding weak and rich dependencies to > > upstream RPM. There are basically two parts: > > > Is someone signed up to do the necessary frontend work for this on the > dnf/yum side? If we're allowing choice of "A | B" like this, there > needs to be a frontend that actually allows choosing, like aptitude. Fedora isn't signed up to *use* it yet. We can still make the choice whether we want to or not, I believe. > I guess one could go with the "shortest package name wins" approach or > whatever the current heuristic is for now... > > This is also relevant with things like kickstart files, where there is > no interactivity allowed. Typical approach there is simply to come up with a 'default' approach, and that's what kickstarts use. If we use 'rich' dependencies, the questions would be to set policies for the use of each type of dependency in Fedora, and decide what level of 'weak' dependency to install by default. kickstart installs and live image creation would then, one expects, use that same level. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
