Callum Lerwick <seg@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-12-07 at 15:35 -0900, Jeff Spaleta wrote: > > Whereas > > with Suggests/Recommends there would be no way for the package > > management system to know if a user already has one of the > > applications installed that can be used to fill that function. > > Virtual provides solve the problem of choice among equals... > > suggests/recommends do not. I see no reason to implement a > > Suggests/Recommends in this situation, from an end-user perspective. > .deb can handle this: RPM can handle alternative packages offering the same functionality, as Jeff just explained. .deb handles Suggests/Recommends, but that is another dimension. -- Dr. Horst H. von Brand User #22616 counter.li.org Departamento de Informatica Fono: +56 32 2654431 Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria +56 32 2654239 Casilla 110-V, Valparaiso, Chile Fax: +56 32 2797513 -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
