On 04/06/2017 02:00 PM, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 12:40 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
What's not explained is why, except that it "causes issues with the
package updates process". It seems as if the or-rule above would be
simple enough, so what's the exact problem?
None (or almost none) of rel-eng (and probably some other critical
tools) are not supporting them. For example, "mash" uses yum which just
Isn't mash dead?
crashes when finds out rich dependency. Other tools are doing their own
depsolving which leads to the wrong results or non-solvable
dependencies.
But the tooling does not support weak dependencies, either. Weak
dependencies *are* allowed, and you can't really install current Fedora
using yum.
So maybe the tools issues have been addressed?
Thanks,
Florian
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