* Jeff Johnson <n3...@mac.com> [May 24. 2011 00:27]: > > That was basically the point of the exchange with Klaus: there may > be a better and simpler way of adding "weak dependencies" using > the arbitrary tags I mentioned.
And this should be good enough for now. People wanting to build packages for (Open)SUSE can use the Open Build Service (build.opensuse.org) and use rpmlint for additional checks. > > That's where all of the above has been for 4+ years (7+ years if you go back > to when RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK was originally proposed, and "weak dependencies" > were mostly implemented a few months later). Its kinda hard to > get excited about 7 year old implementations that haven't ever really > been used or deployed widely (yes SuSE has, noone else I'm aware of). Debian (http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html) defines weak dependencies identically to SUSE. Klaus --- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany ______________________________________________________________________ RPM Package Manager http://rpm5.org Developer Communication List rpm-devel@rpm5.org
