On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 18:13 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
One would probably want two levels of soft requires - the syntax is
implemented in rpm but not sure if they're currently distinguishable
outside the spec syntax:
Requires(missingok) and Requires(hint) where "missingok" is something
you'd want to install by default but removing of the dependency wont
break the package, "hint" being .. well, a hint that this might be
useful with this software but not installed automatically. Enhances is
basically Suggests reversed for situations where Suggests cannot be
used
because the main package has no knowledge of the enhancing package.
This seems to be spiraling into major complexity and lots of ways for
developers to get it wrong. Boo. I've never been very thrilled with
the idea of soft deps, and I really haven't seen it done right.
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