[Fedora-packaging] Requires(missingok)

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 3 15:08:38 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 15:04 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:26:10AM -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 10:57 +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > Worth comparing what Debian do:
> > > 
> > >   http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#s-binarydeps
> > 
> > you'll note debian doesn't specify behavior. So much in fact b/c, last
> > time I checked, apt just lists out suggests/recommends to the terminal
> > w/o doing anything with them.
> 
> Even just listing them out is (IMHO) a good thing.  Sometimes on
> Debian I'll see a suggestion that looks worthwhile, kill the apt-get,
> and start it again with the extra package.  Of course what Debian is
> then missing is an explanation of what the extra package does and why
> it enhances the requested package, eg:
> 
>   yum install foo
> 
>   foo suggests bar
>   bar: with this package you will be able to foo bars as well
> 

so the above does nothing for the most useful case of anaconda, then.

-sv





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