On Jan 21, 2008, at 2:56 PM, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, 14:06:53 +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote:
[...]
One thing I like about .deb is that you can recommend other packages
to install.
This would have alerted to you that something was missing - alas
there
is no such mechanism for rpm.
Hmm, isn't this what the "Recommends:" and "Suggests:" directives are
for? From <http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service_Tutorial>:
Recommends RPM example: if available and all dependencies of this
package are fulfilled, the package would
be installed. If the package is not available,
there are not error messages. If the package
dependencies are not met, the package would
be visible but not installed.
Suggests RPM example: would be shown in the pattern but not
installed
per default.
well there you go, you learn something new every day :-)
i'll incorporate this shortly
I agree it may not be exactly the same as what .deb offers, but
there's
at least a way to provide this information.
HTH, cheers.
l8er
manfred
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