Panu Matilainen scripst: > Now, I do think soft dependencies *would* be a powerful feature, > correctly and sparingly used and actually implemented in the tools. How > I personally think it should be done, is two levels of soft dependencies > (btw this is how Suse's rpm fork implements it, JBJ's rpm only has one > level): there are strong and weak dependency hints. IIRC, that's exactly what Debian has -- Recommends (according to the above mentioned page) "declares a strong, but not absolute, dependency", whereas Suggests This is used to declare that one package may be more useful with one or more others. Using this field tells the packaging system and the user that the listed packages are related to this one and can perhaps enhance its usefulness, but that installing this one without them is perfectly reasonable. Matěj -- http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: ceplma<at>jabber.cz GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge. -- Thomas Brackett Reed -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
