Expressing iptables/nftables dependency

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Merry Christmas everyone

I have an application that can either work with legacy iptables
(`iptables-legacy` and `ebtables-legacy`) or `nftables`. So I'm trying
to specify this as a dependency in a spec file. If a user has not
installed any of it (or `iptables-nft`) then `nftables` should be
preferred. 

I thought this would be easy with a RPM boolean dependency [1]:

  Requires: (ebtables-legacy if iptables-legacy else nftables)

When installing the RPM with this expression and no `iptables-legacy`
nor `nftables` already installed then `dnf` will want to install
`ebtables-legacy` and `iptables-legacy`.

Only when I include `nftables` in the `dnf install` command it will
ignore the legacy package dependencies. 

Is there a way to express that I want `nftables` by default except a
user has already `iptables-legacy` installed?

Cheers,
Reto


[1]:
https://rpm-software-management.github.io/rpm/manual/boolean_dependencies.html
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