On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 06:16 -0500, Jeff Johnson wrote:
Seriously, dependencies have a context, and it's highly unlikely
that the dependency is actually needed by anaconda to install
or remove nautilus. The hint to depsolvers like anaconda necessary
with current implementations to discover an additional edge in
the dependency tree graph could be handled in other ways,
if nautilus were prepared to deal with the dlopen failure at
run-time.
nautilus does not require the SMB backend to work, however
we do want it installed by default (even on upgrade).
If (as it does now) that means some people have to
keep it installed even though they don't want it,
then too bad; it's simply more important to get it
installed by default.
If someone fixes it so there's no tradeoff (we can
get it by default, *and* you can uninstall it),
then fantastic; of course nobody will object.
A "requires(missingok)" sounds fine to me, but
the anaconda guys are the ones whose opinion
counts.
Havoc