[Fedora-packaging] Requires(missingok)

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 10:08 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:04 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:26:10AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 10:57 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > Worth comparing what Debian do:
> > > > 
> > > >   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
> > > 
> > > you'll note debian doesn't specify behavior. So much in fact b/c, last
> > > time I checked, apt just lists out suggests/recommends to the terminal
> > > w/o doing anything with them.
> > 
> > Even just listing them out is (IMHO) a good thing.  Sometimes on
> > Debian I'll see a suggestion that looks worthwhile, kill the apt-get,
> > and start it again with the extra package.  Of course what Debian is
> > then missing is an explanation of what the extra package does and why
> > it enhances the requested package, eg:
> > 
> >   yum install foo
> > 
> >   foo suggests bar
> >   bar: with this package you will be able to foo bars as well
> > 
> 
> so the above does nothing for the most useful case of anaconda, then.

I think Anaconda will have to treat soft deps as hard deps.

~spot