Mailinglist Archive: zypp-devel (56 mails)

[Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf@xxxxxxx>]

* Cristian Rodríguez <crrodriguez@xxxxxxx> [Dec 07. 2007 08:13]:
> Hi:
>
> Are all of the Dependency types listed here:
>
> http://en.opensuse.org/Software_Management/Dependencies
>
> Honoured by zypp ? especifically the "weak, conditional and  reverse
> dependencies" ?

Yes. If not, it would count as a bug ;-)


> if so, what are the rules of the game? f.e Reccommends is triggered on
> patches too, which is a quite unexpected behaviuor, a "patch" in my
> understanding corrects an already installed package and only pull new
> ones when they are stricly "Required".. ;-)

Well, the basic rule is 'equal semantics for all resolvables'. So yes,
recommends do trigger for patches also.
That said, I do agree with your conclusion, a patch should not
recommend anything. Instead, a second, optional patch should exists to
pull in a new, recommended package.


Klaus
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