Move Evolution to Extras?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Wed Apr 5 12:41:58 UTC 2006


Jeff Spaleta wrote:

> Your logic also hits on another packaging policy limitation in Core
> which doesn't strongly delineate between hard requirements and
> optional functionality which depends on an additional package to be
> installed to be functional. 

AFAIK, the latest (or soon to be included in rawhide?) version of rpm 
will support new tags:
Requires(hint):
and/or
Requires(missingok):
to allow for such soft requirements.

-- Rex




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