On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 03:19:08PM +0200, Alexander Skwar wrote: > The point is, to overcome the shortcoming of RPM - with that I mean, > that RPM is lacking something like Debians Suggests. If there was > something like Suggests: in RPM, then you'd be right. > > But there isn't, and so I agree that Razor should be a Requires: of > spamassasin, as it works much better with Razor installed.
So fix RPM and don't put stupid requirements on packages that don't need them. For that matter it wouldn't be that hard to put something in the post script that looks to see if Razor is installed and if not displays a message suggesting that someone install it. So there's absolutely no reason why you *HAVE* to do this with a Requires. And if you tell me that GUI programs won't display this message well... it's not like this would be the only package that displays useful informational text during it's post script. So fix the GUI programs to display that text. In short let's not just do crappy works around that practically forces your opinion about what should be installed with spamassassin on everyone and actually fix the problem. Seriously how hard would it be to write a patch that added a Suggests? It'd basically be a Requires tag that instead of erroring out it would just warn. So you could use the same tests to see if a package is there you'd just keep a different list and use different responses. But like I said it's really not necessary to do this anyway you can do it in post. -- Ben Reser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ben.reser.org We tend to see all wars through the lens of the current conflict, and we mine history for lessons convenient to the present purpose. - Brian Hayes
