On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:41 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 06/12/2015 03:23 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: >> >> On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius <rc040203@xxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote: >>> >>>> Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo >>> >>> >>> It doesn't matter much what FESCO says of believes in this case. >>> >>> ATM, neither is the technical infrastructure is in place (it is evolving) >>> nor are impact/consequences clear not are the prototypical use-cases of >>> soft/weak-deps clear. >>> >>> @Thorsten: I do not think, weak/soft-deps are of use in your case. >>> Unfortunatley, I do not have solution, either. > > >> What do you mean by the technical infrastructure for it is lacking? > > > E.g. /usr/bin/rpm still lacks the --what* command-line options corresponding > to soft/weak deps. > > This issue was mentioned the rpm maintainer in an FPC meeting (IIRC, 3 weeks > ago), when we were discussing soft/weak-deps but nothing seems to have > happened since. > > Therefore I just (I could have done so earlier, but have been on vacation) > filed an RFE against rpm: > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231247 > > > Ralf > > > > -- > devel mailing list > devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Doesn't libsolv/hawkey handle this within itself, though? -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
