On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smooge(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 8 November 2014 10:54, Peter Lemenkov <lemenkov(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All!
> RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's
> the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them
> (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)?
>
> I have a real-world example where I'd like to mark a dependency as
> Suggests instead of Requires and want to know if dnf is ready to
> process it?
>
> --
I am guessing the question is "Has dnf grown a method for dealing with
Suggests" and how does it deal with it? Does it ask if you want to install
something that wasn't required.. does it treat a Suggests like it is a
Required and just installs it or does it ignore it unless some extra flag is
add (--read-my-mind)
Well if you have package foo that suggests bar and you do
dnf/yum install foo it should simply install both, but if you do
yum/dnf remove bar it should leave foo installed.
But neither is implemented.