Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting
Seth Vidal
skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Wed May 27 11:26:59 UTC 2009
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
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