On Debian and Fedora experiences

Christoph Wickert christoph.wickert at nurfuerspam.de
Wed Dec 6 13:58:23 UTC 2006


Am Montag, den 04.12.2006, 08:51 -0500 schrieb Jesse Keating:
> On Monday 04 December 2006 08:34, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > And one more I forgot -- I really miss Suggests: and Recommends: Having
> > aalib required to be installed (take a look at rpm -qi aalib -- do you
> > think you really need it?) makes me really home-sick after Debian.
> 
> And how do you expect automated tools to handle these soft requirements?

Maybe with a popup: "Foo suggests bar. Do you want to install bar? Y/N"

For really automated installs/updates the Suggests: should be installed,
or there should be a method to set this in let's say yum.conf:
"suggests=1", where 0 would mean no suggested packages.

> Either you always install them, or you never do, which basically brings up 
> the question, whats the point?  Why do this instead of just Requires or not?

Remember the "Require foo or bar?"-thread on this list on June 3rd. As
another example see
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=215241#c6

Christoph




More information about the fedora-extras-list mailing list