Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

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Dne 11.11.2014 v 09:14 Vít Ondruch napsal(a):
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Dne 10.11.2014 v 18:31 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a):
>> We invite anyone to start using this feature to help us sand off the
>> rough edges. Any contribution (documentation, bug reports,
>> patches, ...) will help us. We would just like to ask you for
>> patience, as the state is what it is - before F22, this is more of a
>> tech preview than production ready feature.

> I'd personally say people shouldn't start using this...

I'd personally say that we should start to use this immediately. I'd say
that wrong dependencies happens quite often in Fedora, this cannot make
things worse.

For example, there happens quite often that JRuby is pulled in instead
of expected Ruby MRI. In this case "Recommends: ruby" should be more
appropriate dependency then "Require: ruby", because for somebody, JRuby
might be preferred. But we'd like to give a hint to the resolver what is
preferred by package maintainer.

Vít

Additionally, if DNF can properly use soft dependencies while YUM cannot, it will help us to drive user adoption of DNF, which is also good thing IMO.


Vít

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