On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:54:35 +0400
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)?
My understanding:
rpm - accepts them as valid and lets you build packages with them.
yum - ignores them completely
createrepo - adds the info to the metadata
dnf via hawkey - will only use them to break ties if for example two
packages are both possible solutions, but one also is suggests or
whatever.
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?
not really as far as I know.
dnf needs to handle these cases, it needs documented, etc.
kevin