Policy for Requires in spec files supporting optional features

[Panu Matilainen]

On Mon, 9 Jan 2006, Michael A. Peters wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 20:36 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-01-09 at 18:13 +0000, Tim Jackson wrote:
>>
>>> I believe that some other packaging systems have a
>>> way of specifying "suggested dependencies", which is what's needed here,
>>> but RPM doesn't (unless I'm missing something).
>>
>> It does in >= 4.4 (Suggests:, Enhances:, Requires(missingok), maybe
>> others (and maybe I don't remember the names accurately)) but I'm not
>> aware of any frontends which would support that functionality.  Not sure
>> about plain rpm CLI.
>>
>
> Any idea where this is documented?
> I can't find it.
> If I can find it - I'd like to file an RFE with yum (for Suggests or
> Enhances) so I can use it.
>
> I Looked in ( /usr/share/doc/rpm-4.4.1) CHANGES dependencies spec
> and the man page, and didn't find it.

It's only in rpm >= 4.4.3, not earlier. See 
http://wraptastic.org/blog/?p=36#more-36 for the changelog.

 	- Panu -