On Oct 9, 2009, at 2:28 PM, David Golden wrote:
-1 I'd always have to try to remember which is which, because they
are so
similarly named. The names really should be very different. Perhaps
"recommends" as currently implemented, and "prefers" for stuff
that's not
required but you'd rather have it than not. And then, yes, if a
preferred
dependency is not installed, that would not lead to an installation
failure.
+1 to David's suggestion. That way we don't have to change
recommends, but "prefers" can indicate "you should really install
this, but we won't FAIL if you don't".
Right, exactly.
David
