Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:

> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 07:10:42AM +0200, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
>> soft-deps (Suggests/Recommends) is really hard to handle at the
>> depsolver level. A depsolver need to now the hard ones, not stuff like
>> 'it would look very nice to have pink bracelet to my little pony'. It is
>> hard to make good decisions based on that, a asking the user every time
>> is not a good solution IMO. You will need to take a popquiz every time
>> you what to install a package.
>> I can see that the information can be useful at a high level gui or in
>> some kind of appstore. People there have bought 'foo' have also bought
>> 'bar'. But at the lowlevel like rpm/yum is not very useful, because we
>> don't have the needed infomation to make a good decision.
>
> There's no real difficulty here.  The depsolver ignores 'suggests' for
> resolving dependencies.  The UI needs to change to allow these to be
> selected, or in the case of command line tools like yum, to print them
> out at the end.  "You may also be interested in packages A, B and C".
>

I think the number of disputing perspectives in this thread ALONE on how 
suggests would be handles proves that it is not obvious on its face how 
suggests should be handled.

-sv