[Fedora-packaging] Requires(missingok)

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Mon Mar 3 14:20:35 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 09:28 +0100, Hans de Goede wrote:

> Is there any way of softdependencies supported by yum? Is this planned for the 
> the future, for plugin basd apps it would be nice to be able to hint to the end 
> user that certain optional plugins (with perhaps some hefty deps) would be good 
> to install, then in beginning user mode (== default) yum could treat these as 
> harddeps, and more advanced users could reconfigure the behavior to for example 
> ask the user, or just not install soft-deps.
> 

Since rpm doesn't support it, it doesn't really matter.

-sv





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