On Tue, 2006-12-05 at 04:03 -0500, seth vidal wrote: > 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 Automatically installing suggests/enhances packages is different from having them be Requires how? :) IMHO, the only way this makes sense to waste time on is if all the depsolvers prompt the user. Suggested Optional Packages ============================ The packages you have selected to install/upgrade suggest some related packages which may enhance your user experience, but are not required. Install shoes [y/N]: y Install sandals [y/N]: n Install pants [y/N]: yesyesyes I know this has to recurse to be useful. ~spot -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
