suggests/requires in rpm

Darrin Thompson darrint at progeny.com
Mon Jan 24 13:53:49 UTC 2005


On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 08:25 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
> OK, so call the scheme "implementable" rather than "well defined". <shrug>
> 
> Unlike Suggests: Enhances: Recommends: which all cater to user expectations,
> and have never been well implemented, even in apt.
> 
> "Not implemented." has never stopped user expectations before, "missingok"
> will be exactly the same.
> 

Fair enough. As long as no depsolver is confused into leaving out a
security update there shouldn't be too much complaining.

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Darrin





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