Hello, On Apr 10 20:24 K?ištof Želechovski wrote (excerpt):
Dnia wtorek, 9 kwietnia 2013 11:34:51 Malcolm pisze:
On 9 April 2013 13:47, Greg Freemyer
wrote: Fio is a performance testing tool for disk subsystems. One of its features is it can produce plots viewable via gnuplot so there is a recommends gnuplot in the specfile.
Why not create a sub package that has a requires on gnuplot, basically just metadata to pull in if the user wants to add it?
That would be like a tool that produces plain text offering a subpackage that requires xmore. Requirements are for the tool to be able to run, not for the user to be able to make use of the result.
Another issue with RPM Requires versus RPM Recommends is the setup of package build systems (in particular in the openSUSE Build Service). Therefore: Keep RPM Requires as small as possible - i.e. only what is really mandatory to let the software run. See https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=776080#c39 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer