Re: suggests/requires in rpm - missingOK

[Jeff Johnson <n3npq nc rr com>]

Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote:

> Should the missingOK flag just make you able to *install* a package
> without the package which "may be missing", but not upgrade - say if you
> have a libary that needs to be upgraded in paralell to an app, and you
> upgraded the app but not the lib (because of slow packager etc) - then
> some functionality would suddenly just wanish...
>  

Nah, convoluting install vs upgrade mode behavior changes into 
"missingok" would
make everyone's head hurt. Certainly gives me a headache ;-)

Nice and KISSy, "missingok" is a "optional" edge in a dependency graph 
until the
depsolver guys catch up ...

73 de Jeff