-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Thu, 2017-04-06 at 14:07 +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > 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? Some people tell me it is, some other says no. And after some time, someone starts porting it to DNF. So it is hard to say. Anyhow, it *is* used right now. > > > 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. Yes, this is also true. Yum just ignores weak deps, but I thought anaconda/pungi/whatsoever disables weak deps anyway.. So distribution *MUST* be installable even weak deps are disabled. > > So maybe the tools issues have been addressed? No, they have not been addressed. =( Speaking on behalf of Rust SIG, it is important to support rich dependencies for "version range" support, but I can't do much without support from rel-eng. > > Thanks, > Florian > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - -- - -Igor Gnatenko -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEhLFO09aHZVqO+CM6aVcUvRu8X0wFAljmMpwACgkQaVcUvRu8 X0yBtA//dV+EWj4NF/L7qZR0zxOSwSDyFsqoNnYjBNbD+iQA6sE4VtnlKAsiAcyh XCN1XcZ2KTOzHJkzJwTgb4gD+LVBv4M3HnWCbZGnZpzcFOtQkAx0yvbj0VFtkmxY hW41mJq+1VlfUic79oWVbI2YmNUdKIGxkR65IPJG20OOwwbknwE4aCQqetcJ6gny QbXMJlCtzKg/ZKUZdohKGmY84gYA2w0Oq9TKqYdhbPUpJutl+K3GX8XB1ynC/jPY fTJ/wbTFNV0+B6KAweWDftOaQR+P7nt8qAvg53p6NrFAJtVpy/y19ZDXhvu9V3AH 6U6nXHvfWmIQpMNKkj+sEpQpFXVFpey8g3beSQbOwve3qwTXCv9cOJxnlB5hkYup RhO9FdycwYZB3FoJIfHPYev0xurSmIJ9lBPD/R+oI8fXA/iCLK07VmBhCtUSrd59 cvIZrXepArlAliHtMLRAIpK7GepQRhNxWTKobJnfXrtjYk7XDGp2YHM2brXUO3Ut bYPcGtQiCQqKvohQSQ6csA2lqPQmGHeL6MoY3TUC0u9fkjL5aFm7NQVBaU3iLOmj EPnfD8CDZMP3+o2EiYNI3k2z7DVK0uOWypziyPRzVeJ1XLIrUxQG1LdqPnXS6T+/ eedcIM2Q1xBA7qjvNAIo9HWdudlTZWJj4cpo9nRJ7p9FKoWi/TU= =LEli -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
