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 ;)
- Panu -