On May 22, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Robert Xu wrote: > Hi, > > Weak Dependencies like Suggests, Recommends, Enhances, Supplements, > and Requires(missingok) are implemented already into RPM5, right? > Just double-checking. >
The flags and tags are reserved but again, there's sharp disagreement about the need for weak dependencies ala SuSE. My disagreement is that you can add a "strength" parameter, and implement using an integer, where "strongest" maps onto an integer comparison. But who and how are the integers assigned? If done with external configuration, then rpm installs become indeterminate. If done statically in an external file that is shipped with rpm and never changed, then why is there a need for an external table? I also dislie (and see no need) for Yet More Types of Dependencies. At the time "weak dependencies" were added, there was concern for SLES 10 compatibility (still using downrev rpm at the time). So why is there a need to architect "weak dependencies" for an essentially mainteneance only hysterical enterprise distro shipped by a single vendor? None of the "weak dependencies" are implemented anywhere outside of SuSE afaik, including rpm.org. hth 73 de Jeff
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