Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-18 Thread Björn Persson
Jan Zelený wrote: > On 15. 11. 2014 at 14:51:32, Kevin Kofler wrote: > > Jan Silhan wrote: > > >> 3. The page says "The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very > > >> weak relations or the other way round" does dnf do that? or not? > > > > > > DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-18 Thread Jan Zelený
On 15. 11. 2014 at 14:51:32, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Jan Silhan wrote: > >> 3. The page says "The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very > >> weak relations or the other way round" does dnf do that? or not? > > > > DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that would be too hackish > > behavi

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread Michael Catanzaro
On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 14:51 +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > It's not "hackish", it's "configurable". Letting the user decide > whether > they want to have weak dependencies installed or not is part of the > whole > point of having them. I agree. --no-recommends is a very basic feature of package ma

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread ニール・ゴンパ
On Sat, Nov 15, 2014 at 8:14 AM, Björn Persson wrote: > Jan Silhan wrote: > > On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > > 3. The page says "The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very > > > weak relations or the other way round" does dnf do that? or not? > > > > DNF doesn't do

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread Björn Persson
Jan Silhan wrote: > On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > > 3. The page says "The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very > > weak relations or the other way round" does dnf do that? or not? > > DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that would be too hackish behavior. You r

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-15 Thread Kevin Kofler
Jan Silhan wrote: >> 3. The page says "The depsolver may offer to treat the weak like very >> weak relations or the other way round" does dnf do that? or not? > > DNF doesn't do that and never will. IMO that would be too hackish > behavior. It's not "hackish", it's "configurable". Letting the use

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-12 Thread Jan Silhan
On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:34:16 +0100 > > Jan Zelený wrote: > > Dnf should already have full support of this feature, at least that > > is the plan. Some people already tested it and so far it seems it > > works as expected. The semantics is describe

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-12 Thread Miroslav Suchý
On 11/10/2014 06:31 PM, Kevin Fenzi wrote: I'd personally say people shouldn't start using this... we should be able to work up the cases or whatever... it just means that in f21 people using yum (the default) will get sometimes different behavior from dnf (not yet the default). But F21 is bran

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-11 Thread Jan Zelený
On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:31:55, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:34:16 +0100 > > Jan Zelený wrote: > > Dnf should already have full support of this feature, at least that > > is the plan. Some people already tested it and so far it seems it > > works as expected. The semantics is describe

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-11 Thread Vít Ondruch
Dne 11.11.2014 v 09:14 Vít Ondruch napsal(a): > > Dne 10.11.2014 v 18:31 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): > >> We invite anyone to start using this feature to help us sand off the > >> rough edges. Any contribution (documentation, bug reports, > >> patches, ...) will help us. We would just like to ask you fo

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-11 Thread Vít Ondruch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dne 10.11.2014 v 18:31 Kevin Fenzi napsal(a): >> We invite anyone to start using this feature to help us sand off the >> rough edges. Any contribution (documentation, bug reports, >> patches, ...) will help us. We would just like to ask you for >> pat

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 10:34:16 +0100 Jan Zelený wrote: > Dnf should already have full support of this feature, at least that > is the plan. Some people already tested it and so far it seems it > works as expected. The semantics is described here: > > http://rpm.org/wiki/PackagerDocs/Dependencies

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Mon, 10 Nov 2014 13:46:54 +0100 Jan Zelený wrote: > On 10. 11. 2014 at 13:16:58, Michal Sekletar wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:45:05AM +0100, Jan Zelený wrote: > > > > > > > However, what I'm not sure about is whether it's already possible > > > to build weak-deps enhanced rpms in Fe

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 10. 11. 2014 at 13:16:58, Michal Sekletar wrote: > On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:45:05AM +0100, Jan Zelený wrote: > > > > However, what I'm not sure about is whether it's already possible to build > > weak-deps enhanced rpms in Fedora, has someone tested that? I've heard > > it's > > possible in

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Michal Sekletar
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 10:45:05AM +0100, Jan Zelený wrote: > However, what I'm not sure about is whether it's already possible to build > weak-deps enhanced rpms in Fedora, has someone tested that? I've heard it's > possible in COPR but I'm not sure about koji. I tested this and building weak-

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 10. 11. 2014 at 10:04:53, Michal Sekletar wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:54:35PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > Hello All! > > RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's > > the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them > > (building RPM with

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Jan Zelený
On 8. 11. 2014 at 16:49:18, Kevin Fenzi wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:54:35 +0400 > > Peter Lemenkov wrote: > > Hello All! > > RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's > > the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them > > (building RPM with Recomme

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Michal Sekletar
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 09:54:35PM +0400, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello All! > RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's > the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them > (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? I don't think it is ok to start us

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-10 Thread Radek Holy
- Original Message - > From: "Michael Schroeder" > To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" > > Sent: Sunday, November 9, 2014 4:03:37 PM > Subject: Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+ > > On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:26:5

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-09 Thread Michael Schroeder
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:26:50PM +0100, drago01 wrote: > Well if you have package foo that suggests bar and you do > > dnf/yum install foo it should simply install both, but if you do > yum/dnf remove bar it should leave foo installed. > > But neither is implemented. Because you're using Sugge

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread Kevin Fenzi
On Sat, 8 Nov 2014 21:54:35 +0400 Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello All! > RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's > the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them > (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? My understanding: rpm - accepts them a

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread drago01
On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > On 8 November 2014 10:54, Peter Lemenkov wrote: >> >> Hello All! >> RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's >> the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them >> (building RPM with Re

Re: Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 8 November 2014 10:54, Peter Lemenkov wrote: > Hello All! > RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's > the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them > (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? > > I have a real-world example where I'd like to

Status of weak dependencies support in Fedora 21+

2014-11-08 Thread Peter Lemenkov
Hello All! RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? I have a real-world example where I'd like to mark a dependency as Suggests instead of Requires and want t