Exists perhaps a written specificaton for suggest, raccomend other that was discussed many time - Almost from 7 years now - on rpm-maint, the old rpm-devel, also on lwn.net ( if my memory is good in origin was suggest = missing sense ok ). On debian the desiderated answer depends from depsolver in use: dselect, apt ecc. For example apt-get generally ask interactively something like : do you want to install this suggest package ? Difficult these days to have an agrrement for what is the correct answer for rpm. Am i wrong perhaps ? -----Original Message----- From: Per Øyvind Karlsen Sent: 06/03/2011, 06:44 To: rpm-devel@rpm5.org Subject: different suggests behaviour
Working out some remaining issues in perl-URPM for dealing with upgrades from stable releases I became aware of some different behaviour for suggests giving headaches.. First of all, ie. 'rpm -q --requires foo' will return both "regular" requires and suggests, is this really correct behaviour? For rpm 4.6 it will also treat the suggests as "regular" requires as well, ie. trying to install packages built with rpm 5.3 without satisfying suggests will return in dependency error. I'm not sure about what's considered as "correct" behaviour or not, working around it in perl-URPM can be done.. IMHO 'rpm -q --requires' shouldn't return soft dependencies, and older rpm versions shouldn't treat these as such either, ignorance of not knowing better being fairly obvious.. ;) -- Regards, Per Øyvind ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
