On Wednesday 22 May 2013 23:33:05 Richard W.M. Jones wrote: > TBH I don't think we need Suggests AND Recommends. I can never > remember the difference on Debian. Wouldn't most people would be > satisfied with a single way to suggest useful packages?
Thinking about it, the terminology adopted by "comps" is clearer and provides a generalization of this -- if someone select something they get: - Mandatory packages (cannot be deselected) - Default packages (selected, but the user may deselect) - Optional packages (deselected, but the user may select) Borrowing similar logic for rpm we could have in the spec file: Name: acme Requires: foo, foo-utils InstallDefault: bar, perl-bar, python-bar InstallOptional: baz, baz-ldap Now it would be classic to use "--with/--without" as command line flags, but it's already taken :-( -- Oron Peled Voice: +972-4-8228492 o...@actcom.co.il http://users.actcom.co.il/~oron Boycott Microsoft -- http://www.vcnet.com/bms -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
