On Thursday 16 December 2010, Jon Masters wrote:
On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 23:57 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
But how many packages nowadays require a man page reader simply because
> they install man pages?
Well, since it's a guideline, it's worth discussion. Sure there's only
18 in your list, but that sounds more like a bug than a feature.
Similarly, for docs in HTML format we could probably do with some kind
of dependency suggestion (I'm not sure what the Fedora version of RPM
recommended way of doing dependency level "suggestions" is now). I would
think that would be the ideal, to recommend these things but not require
them to be installed if it's just documentation files.
I think the policy should be to somehow recommend the additional bits,
then you can add "but not require" in place of the existing wording.
I disagree, in my opinion even a recommendation in this context would be too
much. I think the line when to use recommendations should be drawn to
something that adds features or makes software work better/more efficiently.
Anyway, what is the current Fedora RPM way of doing suggestions?
I've
seen this stuff in SuSE, and other package managers (including RPM).
There is no support for that in Fedora's rpm.