Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting

[Seth Vidal]

On Wed, 27 May 2009, Kevin Kofler wrote:

> Seth Vidal wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Well, people are proposing 2 behaviors: 1. treat as hard dependencies by
> default or 2. ignore by default. Why not have both? In fact that's what
> Debian is doing: Recommends is 1., Suggests is 2., and of course the
> default can be changed (you can choose to drag everything in or to ignore
> even Recommends). So why don't we do the same in RPM and Yum?

I can't wait to see how we depsolve through:

yum update:

- foo is updated and recommends bar
- bar conflicts with baz which is also in the update


but I'm sure we'll muddle through - provided this is included in upstream 
rpm.

-sv