On Jan 10, 2006, at 11:52 AM, Michael A. Peters wrote:
On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:34 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Don't use what you cannot write and maintain reliably.
I was hoping there was a macro in rpm already that I just wasn't
seeing.
Macros aren't the right solution.
Suggests looks interesting to reduce dependency bloat if/when the
frontends support the tag.
Hint: The alternative syntax to Suggests: is Requires(hint):
The patch to ignore unknown tokens like "hint" is perhaps
easier, and having
Suggests: devolve to Requires: for versions of rpm that don't support
"hint" is
arguably the best way to retrofit functionality.
The real problem is that Suggests: is mechanism only, only cAos (and
KainX's mezzanine)
have an understanding of how to use Suggests: with discipline.
All that apt does with Suggests: is print a message, perhaps not the
most intelligent
implementation.
Sorry for wasting your time.
Be that way then. I can't help you if you can't upgrade rpm. Yet More
Macro Gunk is
depressing and sad.
73 de Jeff
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