comps discussion at fudcon and the future

[Michal Schmidt]

Dne Fri, 16 Jan 2009 08:09:15 +0100
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> napsal:

> I don't want to get tracked into the discussions if "Requires(hint)"
> and other soft deps make sense to support in rpm/yum or not.
> 
> But if conditionals really go away in comps it would be really nice
> for external repos like RPM Fusion to have a alternative way to 
> automatically get (for example(¹) ) xine-lib-extras-freeworld
> installed if the users installs (or already has installed) xine-lib.

How about openSUSE's reverse dependencies ("Essentialfor",
"Supplements")?
http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies

Michal