required and recommended

Alex Lancaster alexl at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Jan 25 10:51:36 UTC 2006


>>>>> "RE" == Ralf Ertzinger  writes:

RE> Hi.
>> Is there a mean to put in a package informations about other
>> packages recommended but not formally required. I know it's
>> possible in debian packages but is it possible with rpm ?

RE> RPM does not support this.

Not yet, but rpm-4.4.3 (not yet in Rawhide) will have "Suggests:" and
"Enhances:" tags, see:

http://wraptastic.org/blog/?p=36

Don't know how they are supposed to work yet.

A.y




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