On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 06:50 -0700, Panu Matilainen wrote:
Recent rpm versions support soft dependencies, eg
Requires(hint): foo
Provides(hint): bar
..and have corresponding "aliases" for spec file syntax:
Suggests: foo
Enhances: bar
Too bad it doesn't seem like we're getting a version of rpm
supporting those anytime soon :-/
I was told on the rpm list by an rpm developer that it would probably be
at least a year before repository front ends properly supported those
new features anyway - so if I used them, don't expect them to do what I
want in repositories for awhile.