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Re: [opensuse-packaging] [Proposal] Suggests/Enhances Support in RPM/YaST
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Dec 2005 09:31:00 +0100
- Message-id: <hopsnq4zsr.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gustavo Niemeyer <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> [...]
> We cannot just install them, because otherwise it becomes a true
> requires. Asking the user to confirm is a bit tricky, since we may
> get into "suggests of suggests" and become boring. So we should
> try to understand what is a good way of handling them.
We could install them - this gives the chance to install a package if
it is available on the media and not fail if not... But perhaps this
is not the intended behaviour ;-)
> That's the part where we create a flame war and then try to
> collect some useful ideas afterwards. ;-)
Let's collect ideas directly ;-)
Andreas
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Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
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> [...]
> We cannot just install them, because otherwise it becomes a true
> requires. Asking the user to confirm is a bit tricky, since we may
> get into "suggests of suggests" and become boring. So we should
> try to understand what is a good way of handling them.
We could install them - this gives the chance to install a package if
it is available on the media and not fail if not... But perhaps this
is not the intended behaviour ;-)
> That's the part where we create a flame war and then try to
> collect some useful ideas afterwards. ;-)
Let's collect ideas directly ;-)
Andreas
--
Andreas Jaeger, aj@xxxxxxx, http://www.suse.de/~aj
SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126
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