On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 11:58 AM, Matthew Miller <mattdm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2015 at 04:08:03PM +0200, Reindl Harald wrote: >> >>I thought, "Recommends:" is still banned from Fedora packages. >> >Why would you say that? >> because there are still no clear guidelines how to deal? >> https://www.google.at/search?q=package+guidelines+waek+dependencies > > So, to summarize: > > * A draft for FPC wasn't resolved because there were some unanswered > questions and a next-draft policy proposal never written. > > * There was a proposal for FESCo to ban use until policy exists, and > that proposal was droppped pending knowing how DNF will use them. > > > I think in general we can't possibly consider lack of guidelines on > something as a ban, because the world is big and moves quickly. It > *would* be nice to have guidelines, and if packages do something before > there are guidelines for it, they should be brought into compliance > once guidelines *do* exist. Then 'mock' and 'buildroots' should 'Recommends:" based installations disabled by default. Just picture the compilation adventures when 'Recommends:' pulls in something that relies on alternatives based deployment, such as java or mysql-libs, where the most 'recent' version of a meta dependency may replace the base software in the OS image. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
