On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:28:41AM +0100, Hans de Goede wrote: > seth vidal wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 16:35 -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: >>> I saw a review ticket for a package which uses Requires(missingok): >>> which I have not seen before. Some searching turned up the kismet and >>> python-docutils which currently use this idiom. >>> >>> What is this actually supposed to do? I can understand what >>> Requires(hint) might do, but Requires(missingok) sounds more like it >>> wouldn't actually do anything if the dependency is not present, which >>> would make me wonder as to the point of having it at all. >>> >>> Do we want Requires(missingok) in Fedora packages? >>> >> >> no - at least for yum it is not supported. >> > > Is there any way of softdependencies supported by yum? Is this planned for > the the future, for plugin basd apps it would be nice to be able to hint to > the end user that certain optional plugins (with perhaps some hefty deps) > would be good to install, then in beginning user mode (== default) yum > could treat these as harddeps, and more advanced users could reconfigure > the behavior to for example ask the user, or just not install soft-deps. Worth comparing what Debian do: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps Rich. -- Richard Jones, Emerging Technologies, Red Hat http://et.redhat.com/~rjones virt-top is 'top' for virtual machines. Tiny program with many powerful monitoring features, net stats, disk stats, logging, etc. http://et.redhat.com/~rjones/virt-top -- Fedora-packaging mailing list Fedora-packaging@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging
