Re: Heads up: F23 products/spins, weak rpm dependencies, and you

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On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 11:33 -0400, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2015 at 10:38 AM, Adam Jackson <ajax@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > In Fedora 23, rpm has grown support for weak dependencies (Recommends:
> > and Suggests: tags). However, the compose tools have not been ported to
> > dnf/libsolv yet, which means these tags will have no effect at image
> > compose time.
> 
> ​Are the compose tools going to match DNF's behavior in package dependency
> resolution in the near future?​

 There are beta patches for yum to support recommends/suggests on
install, which are being evaluated, they'll hopefully get in before F23
GA ... but there's no guarantees, and even then "match DNF's behavior"
is not how anyone would describe it.

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