On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, 14:06:53 +0100, Andrew Beekhof wrote: > [...] > One thing I like about .deb is that you can recommend other packages > to install. > This would have alerted to you that something was missing - alas there > is no such mechanism for rpm.
Hmm, isn't this what the "Recommends:" and "Suggests:" directives are for? From <http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service_Tutorial>: Recommends RPM example: if available and all dependencies of this package are fulfilled, the package would be installed. If the package is not available, there are not error messages. If the package dependencies are not met, the package would be visible but not installed. Suggests RPM example: would be shown in the pattern but not installed per default. I agree it may not be exactly the same as what .deb offers, but there's at least a way to provide this information. HTH, cheers. l8er manfred _______________________________________________ Linux-HA mailing list Linux-HA@lists.linux-ha.org http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha See also: http://linux-ha.org/ReportingProblems
