On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:28 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote: > Rex Dieter wrote: > > Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > > >> Your logic also hits on another packaging policy limitation in Core > >> which doesn't strongly delineate between hard requirements and > >> optional functionality which depends on an additional package to be > >> installed to be functional. > > > > AFAIK, the latest (or soon to be included in rawhide?) version of rpm > > will support new tags: > > Requires(hint): > > and/or > > Requires(missingok): > > to allow for such soft requirements. > > Yup. Votes for getting a newer rpm version into rawhide sooner than > later to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174307 ;) If there is a decision to support this stuff it might be a good idea to make sure we're converging on the same mechanism that the opensuse folks are. -sv -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
