On Thursday 16 December 2010, Jon Masters wrote: > On Wed, 2010-12-15 at 23:57 +0200, Ville Skyttä wrote: > But how many packages nowadays require a man page reader simply because > > they install man pages? > > Well, since it's a guideline, it's worth discussion. Sure there's only > 18 in your list, but that sounds more like a bug than a feature. > Similarly, for docs in HTML format we could probably do with some kind > of dependency suggestion (I'm not sure what the Fedora version of RPM > recommended way of doing dependency level "suggestions" is now). I would > think that would be the ideal, to recommend these things but not require > them to be installed if it's just documentation files. > > I think the policy should be to somehow recommend the additional bits, > then you can add "but not require" in place of the existing wording.
I disagree, in my opinion even a recommendation in this context would be too much. I think the line when to use recommendations should be drawn to something that adds features or makes software work better/more efficiently. > Anyway, what is the current Fedora RPM way of doing suggestions? I've > seen this stuff in SuSE, and other package managers (including RPM). There is no support for that in Fedora's rpm. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
