[fab] Fw: [Bug 174307] RPM 4.4.6 is available

[Rex Dieter]

Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-07-09 at 14:23 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
>> seth vidal wrote:
>>
>>> And as I said before - the 'soft requires' need to have a lot of policy
>>> decided on before we throw them into the tree. Not only for kickstart
>>> but also for yum and policy for how things like 'enhances' will be
>>> moderated in extras.
>>> Doing it willy-nilly is a path to pain.
>> I'd argue that the rpm feature can be enabled asap/now (since, afaik,
>> nothing uses it), then the technical details and policy can be hammered
>> out, but that's just me.  (:
> 
> Is the "soft requires" feature just syntactic sugar for specfiles and
> another way of saying Requires(hint)/Requires(missingok) or something
> else?  

AFAIK, yes.

>The latter is already being used in a bunch of FE packages, but
> I'm not quite up to date on how it's handled by rpm and friends in
> current FCx and devel nowadays.

AFAIK, rpm currently treats Requires(hint)/Requires(missingok) as a
regular Requires.

-- Rex