On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:54:35 +0400 Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello All! > RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's > the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them > (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? My understanding: rpm - accepts them as valid and lets you build packages with them. yum - ignores them completely createrepo - adds the info to the metadata dnf via hawkey - will only use them to break ties if for example two packages are both possible solutions, but one also is suggests or whatever. > I have a real-world example where I'd like to mark a dependency as > Suggests instead of Requires and want to know if dnf is ready to > process it? not really as far as I know. dnf needs to handle these cases, it needs documented, etc. kevin
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