comps discussion at fudcon and the future

Panu Matilainen pmatilai at laiskiainen.org
Fri Jan 16 06:34:13 UTC 2009


On Fri, 16 Jan 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> seth vidal wrote:
>
>> Really? Who is making the plans for soft deps. Doesn't seem like it at
>> the rpm layer.
>
> Last I checked it was on the rpm.org todo list. Maybe it got dropped. That
> would be unfortunate, because I think they could be useful, I've seen
> several cases where they would have helped (just one example: Kile (a LaTeX
> editor) can call many tools, most users will want them dragged in, but some
> don't and Kile will still work, with reduced functionality, without them -
> just grep for Requires(hint) in packages (mostly those touched by Rex
> Dieter) to see more places where we'd like soft dependencies) and Debian
> fans keep making fun of us because we don't have them ;-).

It hasn't been dropped, only post-poned until we figure out a bunch of 
details.

 	- Panu -




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