Move Evolution to Extras?

[Panu Matilainen]

seth vidal wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:28 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>> Rex Dieter wrote:
>>> 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.
>> Yup. Votes for getting a newer rpm version into rawhide sooner than 
>> later to https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174307 ;)
> 
> If there is a decision to support this stuff it might be a good idea to
> make sure we're converging on the same mechanism that the opensuse folks
> are.

What is Opensuse using/doing then? Requires(hint) and Provides(hint) are 
just an rpm mechanism for allowing soft dependencies, anything beyond 
that is basically a policy question what to do about those in the depsolver.

	- Panu -