On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 08:50 +0000, Matej Cepl wrote: > Jesse Keating scripst: > > And how do you expect automated tools to handle these soft requirements? > > Either you always install them, or you never do, which basically brings > > up the question, whats the point? Why do this instead of just Requires > > or not? > > That's sure one possible solution, except that it seems to be against KISS > principle -- you get miriad new packages (mplayer-aalib, xine-lib-aalib, > etc. for any weird library there is) just to keep Requires:/Suggests: > away. May be it is better solution, I don't know, and I don't understand > this area that much as an engineer (just as an user), but it seems to me > similar to crazy things dones by Debian people just to be able to keep > everything inside Debian source package just Makefile. I don't think anyone is opposed to the idea of suggests/recommends inherently. I, for one, would just like us to make sure we understand the policies that it entails. Especially when we think of things like 'enhances' which is a reverse dependency. The policies have to include: - default, automatic mode - default, prompted mode -sv -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
