On Tuesday, 08 November 2005, at 09:29:26 (+0100), Toralf Lund wrote: > Yes. It's not exactly the same thing, but it is something I've also > wanted... I'm wondering what automatic dependency resolvers will do > with this information, though. Will they install the optional > packages if they are found? rpm itself, as you'd expect, ignores them completely. The depsolvers may or may not, at their option, do anything with the dependency hints. The hope is that they will be added to the transaction set IFF available, but that's entirely at the whim of the depsolver's author. Think of it as more of a convention than anything...a way to know how the TS *could* be populated but doesn't *have* to be. Michael -- Michael Jennings (a.k.a. KainX) http://www.kainx.org/ <mej@xxxxxxxxx> n + 1, Inc., http://www.nplus1.net/ Author, Eterm (www.eterm.org) ----------------------------------------------------------------------- "Shh! Be vewy quiet, I'm hunting wuntime errors!" -- Not Elmer Fudd _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
