On 24/09/2018 21:15, Johannes Meixner wrote:
Hello,
On Sep 24 20:00 Simon Lees wrote (excerpt):
At the moment the way I see it, and the way that probably reflects the realities at the moment is something that is marked as recommends in most cases is something that is not essential but that the packager feels will make life better for most users.
What all the various individual packagers at openSUSE "feel" cannot lead to RPM dependencies that behave consistently for our end-users.
If we give them enough guidelines and info on how to make these decisions it probably can.
See my reasoning https://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2018-02/msg00924.html where I describe why I currently think
- what RPM packages need to be installed to normally use the system for a particular use-case must be defined "outside" of the normal software packages (i.e. that must be defined only via patterns)
- also recommended stuff cannot be defined via RPM recommends of normal software packages but recommended stuff must also be defined via patterns
That would either require a huge number of additional patterns that we don't have or need right now, or alternatively a huge number of recommends becoming requires to in anyway have a reasonable system. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B