On 06/12/2015 03:23 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
On Fri, Jun 12, 2015 at 9:18 AM, Ralf Corsepius
<rc040203(a)freenet.de> wrote:
> On 06/12/2015 02:48 PM, Neal Gompa wrote:
>
>> Soft/weak dependencies are allowed, according to FESCo
>
> It doesn't matter much what FESCO says of believes in this case.
>
> ATM, neither is the technical infrastructure is in place (it is evolving)
> nor are impact/consequences clear not are the prototypical use-cases of
> soft/weak-deps clear.
>
> @Thorsten: I do not think, weak/soft-deps are of use in your case.
> Unfortunatley, I do not have solution, either.
What do you mean by the technical infrastructure for it is lacking?
E.g. /usr/bin/rpm still lacks the --what* command-line options
corresponding to soft/weak deps.
This issue was mentioned the rpm maintainer in an FPC meeting (IIRC, 3
weeks ago), when we were discussing soft/weak-deps but nothing seems to
have happened since.
Therefore I just (I could have done so earlier, but have been on
vacation) filed an RFE against rpm:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1231247
Ralf