On Wed, 2006-04-05 at 18:28 +0300, Panu Matilainen wrote:
Rex Dieter wrote:
> Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>
>> Your logic also hits on another packaging policy limitation in Core
>> which doesn't strongly delineate between hard requirements and
>> optional functionality which depends on an additional package to be
>> installed to be functional.
>
> AFAIK, the latest (or soon to be included in rawhide?) version of rpm
> will support new tags:
> Requires(hint):
> and/or
> Requires(missingok):
> to allow for such soft requirements.
Yup. Votes for getting a newer rpm version into rawhide sooner than
later to
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=174307 ;)
If there is a decision to support this stuff it might be a good idea to
make sure we're converging on the same mechanism that the opensuse folks
are.
-sv