Am Montag, den 04.12.2006, 08:51 -0500 schrieb Jesse Keating: > On Monday 04 December 2006 08:34, Matej Cepl wrote: > > And one more I forgot -- I really miss Suggests: and Recommends: Having > > aalib required to be installed (take a look at rpm -qi aalib -- do you > > think you really need it?) makes me really home-sick after Debian. > > And how do you expect automated tools to handle these soft requirements? Maybe with a popup: "Foo suggests bar. Do you want to install bar? Y/N" For really automated installs/updates the Suggests: should be installed, or there should be a method to set this in let's say yum.conf: "suggests=1", where 0 would mean no suggested packages. > 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? Remember the "Require foo or bar?"-thread on this list on June 3rd. As another example see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215241#c6 Christoph -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
