On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 11:08 PM Nico Kadel-Garcia <nka...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 8:31 AM Dan Horák <d...@danny.cz> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 10 Jun 2019 11:35:52 +0200
> > Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobr...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> >
> > > On Mon, Jun 10, 2019 at 11:31 AM Vít Ondruch <vondr...@redhat.com>
> > > wrote:
> > > >
> > > > There used to be sent nagging email about broken dependencies, but
> > > > it is not sent anymore. I last received such email on 11th of March
> > > > 2018, so probably we don't really care ...
> > >
> > > The problem with that check is that it just checks if all dependencies
> > > are provided by other packages, but it doesn't check if they can be
> > > installed at the same time. So if I would have package with Requires:
> > > foo + Conflicts: foo, that check won't tell anything.
> > >
> > > Same applies to rich dependencies "with", it just checks if one
> > > condition is provided by anything so this check is not useful for
> > > packages with rich dependencies at all…
> >
> > IIRC the original problem was that repoclosure used yum underneath which
> > didn't understand rich/weak deps at all. Do we still wait on a tool
> > using dnf/libsolv to provide equivalent functionality as repoclosure?
>
> "Weak" dependencies make the problem insuluble.

No, they don't. Weak dependencies are not hard to deal with.

There are two ways to treat them in repoclosure: treat them as
Requires or ignore them. Right now, we ignore them, but we could
easily modify our repoclosure to treat them as Requires.



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