RPM Soft dependencies (Was: Re: Agenda for the 2009-05-26 Packaging Committee meeting)

[Rex Dieter]

Horst H. von Brand wrote:

> This whole "soft dependencies" idea has been discussed to death numerous
> times already, and the conclusion has always been that they really don't
> solve anything. 

Whoa.  That's far from my recollection, which is that most folks (me 
included) seem to think some variant of this would be nice, it's just that 
the implementation details would be *hard*.

-- Rex