On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:54:35PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov 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)? I don't think it is ok to start using them for now. We don't have any packaging guidelines on their usage. > > 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? I played with Recommends in one case and it actually worked as expected. Even package uninstalls and updates honored the dependency semantics as expected. However I think it is because libsolv's logic and not some explicit handling in dnf. Michal > > -- > With best regards, Peter Lemenkov. > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
