----- Original Message ----- > On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 10:51:26AM -0500, Matyas Selmeci wrote: > > Kevin Kofler wrote on Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 01:02:26PM +0200: > > > Michael Schroeder wrote: > > > > Sounds like you want weak dependencies (i.e. "Suggests" et al). > > > > > > In this case, I think disjunctive dependencies (default | > > > virtual), as > > > Matthew Garrett pointed out, are the right solution, not soft > > > dependencies > > > (though those would also be nice). > > > > > > Kevin Kofler > > Functionally speaking, what is the difference between a soft > > dependency > > and a disjunctive dependency? How can you satisfy a soft dependency > > if > > you don't know what virtual dependency it is being used to provide? > > If we have: > > Requires: phonon-backend > Suggests: phonon-backend-gstreamer > > What would you expect the outcome to be on a system that has > phonon-backend-xine? I'd have thought that phonon-backend-gstreamer > would get installed, even if you can later remove it. That's not the > desired outcome.
I wouldn't have thought that. I would have thought that if the Requires was already satisfied by phonon-backend-xine, that processing would stop there. You have no need for suggests or recommends either one when the dependency is already satisfied IMO. But, I didn't write any spec around that, so it may be implemented differently in the real (deb) world. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
