(reordering the citations!) > > > Why should we ban weak dependencies if they really > > > do nothing in YUM? > > > > We need a precise and detailed functional description about what these > > "weak dependencies" are supposed to do. > > Do you mean something like this? > > http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Dependencies That documentation belongs upstream (and should _not_ be just repeated within our packaging guidelines IMHO). Rather, there are Fedora-specific questions to figure out. * That page says that Suggests/Enhances: will prompt the user. Do any of the Fedora tools actually do that? Do the _relevant_ tools do that? If not, we shouldn’t be using these tags I guess. (This question impacts the packaging guidelines.) * Assuming our packaging tools do support the tags, what should the installable repo creation / live image creation do? What does it do? (This one doesn’t.) > > >> Before dnf gets promoted as the default package manager, it would be > > >> interesting to do some widespread testing. > > >> > > >> 1. document dnf behavior with weak dependencies and related > > >> configuration options > > >> 2. let people experiment and provide feedbacks > > >> 3. based on feedbacks either propose guidelines or status quo if > > >> that's ok > > > > > > I agree with Haïkel. > > > > I do not. > > I agree with Haikel and Petr, we have a great opportunity to test this and see > how it works. What exactly is the “it” you want to test and have a great opportunity to test? I assume the RPM and DNF upstreams do their own testing of this without depending on Fedora repos to carry such packages. Yes there are Fedora-specific questions but it seems to me that testing them is just not possible at this point. Mirek -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
