Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-18 Thread Jan Zelený
On 15. 11. 2014 at 14:51:32, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jan Silhan wrote: 3. The page says The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very weak relations or the other way round does dnf do that? or not? DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that would be too hackish behavior. It's

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-18 Thread Björn Persson
Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 15. 11. 2014 at 14:51:32, Kevin Kofler wrote: Jan Silhan wrote: 3. The page says The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very weak relations or the other way round does dnf do that? or not? DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jan Silhan wrote: 3. The page says The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very weak relations or the other way round does dnf do that? or not? DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that would be too hackish behavior. It's not hackish, it's configurable. Letting the user decide

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread Björn Persson
Jan Silhan jsil...@redhat.com wrote: On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: 3. The page says The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very weak relations or the other way round does dnf do that? or not? DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that would be too hackish

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Björn Persson bjorn@rombobjörn.se wrote: Jan Silhan jsil...@redhat.com wrote: On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: 3. The page says The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very weak relations or the other way round does dnf do that? or

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 14:51 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: It's not hackish, it's configurable. Letting the user decide whether they want to have weak dependencies installed or not is part of the whole point of having them. I agree. --no-recommends is a very basic feature of package managers

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-12 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 11/10/2014 06:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'd personally say people shouldn't start using this... we should be able to work up the cases or whatever... it just means that in f21 people using yum (the default) will get sometimes different behavior from dnf (not yet the default). But F21 is

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-12 Thread Jan Silhan
On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:34:16 +0100 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Dnf should already have full support of this feature, at least that is the plan. Some people already tested it and so far it seems it works as expected. The semantics

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-11 Thread Vít Ondruch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 10.11.2014 v 18:31 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): We invite anyone to start using this feature to help us sand off the rough edges. Any contribution (documentation, bug reports, patches, ...) will help us. We would just like to ask you for patience,

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-11 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 11.11.2014 v 09:14 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): Dne 10.11.2014 v 18:31 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): We invite anyone to start using this feature to help us sand off the rough edges. Any contribution (documentation, bug reports, patches, ...) will help us. We would just like to ask you for

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-11 Thread Jan Zelený
On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:34:16 +0100 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Dnf should already have full support of this feature, at least that is the plan. Some people already tested it and so far it seems it works as expected. The semantics

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Radek Holy
- Original Message - From: Michael Schroeder m...@suse.de To: Development discussions related to Fedora devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 4:03:37 PM Subject: Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+ On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:26:50PM +0100

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Michal Sekletar
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:54:35PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? I don't think it is ok to start using

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 8. 11. 2014 at 16:49:18, Kevin Fenzi wrote: On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:54:35 +0400 Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them (building RPM with

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:04:53, Michal Sekletar wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:54:35PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them (building RPM with

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Michal Sekletar
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:45:05AM +0100, Jan Zelený wrote: snip However, what I'm not sure about is whether it's already possible to build weak-deps enhanced rpms in Fedora, has someone tested that? I've heard it's possible in COPR but I'm not sure about koji. I tested this and building

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 10. 11. 2014 at 13:16:58, Michal Sekletar wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:45:05AM +0100, Jan Zelený wrote: snip However, what I'm not sure about is whether it's already possible to build weak-deps enhanced rpms in Fedora, has someone tested that? I've heard it's possible in COPR

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:46:54 +0100 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: On 10. 11. 2014 at 13:16:58, Michal Sekletar wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:45:05AM +0100, Jan Zelený wrote: snip However, what I'm not sure about is whether it's already possible to build weak-deps enhanced

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:34:16 +0100 Jan Zelený jzel...@redhat.com wrote: Dnf should already have full support of this feature, at least that is the plan. Some people already tested it and so far it seems it works as expected. The semantics is described here:

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:26:50PM +0100, drago01 wrote: Well if you have package foo that suggests bar and you do dnf/yum install foo it should simply install both, but if you do yum/dnf remove bar it should leave foo installed. But neither is implemented. Because you're using Suggests,

Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? I have a real-world example where I'd like to mark a dependency as Suggests instead of Requires and want

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 November 2014 10:54, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? I have a real-world example

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread drago01
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen smo...@gmail.com wrote: On 8 November 2014 10:54, Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:54:35 +0400 Peter Lemenkov lemen...@gmail.com wrote: Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? My understanding: rpm -