On 2014-08-25, Miroslav Suchý <msuchy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Or we can wait for F21, which will have weak dependencies in RPM. And > I anticipate that weak dependencies will break a lot of circles. > Does Fedora have guidelines what should and what should not be a weak dependency? My experience with Perl packages is that "declaring dependency because it's recommended but the package works without it" is quite seldom. The majority of build cycles are either build-time dependencies for tests or hard run-time dependencies (the Perl module exits with an exception without the dependency in some code paths.) In my opinion, it would be much more appreciated if Fedora had a mechanism to express "I want support for PDF" on the installed system and then package manager would use this boolean to install or skip affected dependencies. (This is the case of "some code paths" from previous paragraph.) -- Petr -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
