On 08/25/2014 12:29 PM, Ralf Corsepius wrote: > On 08/25/2014 12:20 PM, Miroslav Suchý wrote: >> Hi, >> rpm 4.12, which include soft dependencies landed in F21. > First of all, we would need to have a list of precise, detailed definitions of these "soft dependencies" to build up an > opinion. Resurrecting this old thread. The description is here for some time: http://www.rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/DependenciesOverview#Weakdependencies I acknowledge that Recommends and Suggests can be problematic now because DNF and PackageKit is not ready yet. However I think allowing Supplements and Enhances in Fedora is perfectly safe. It does not replace any existing Tag (while Recommends/Suggests may replace Requires). If software handling the rpm with these tags do not know how to handle it and ignore it, then it will behave exactly as now. So there should be no regression. And it can provide us with some real data for soft dependencies for DNF/PackageKit, while keeping Fedora safe. Later when frontends are ready we can finally allow Recommends/Suggests Comments? Unless I get some negative feedback, I will prepare Guidelines Draft. -- Miroslav Suchy, RHCE, RHCDS Red Hat, Senior Software Engineer, #brno, #devexp, #fedora-buildsys -- packaging mailing list packaging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/packaging
