On Sun, 16 Jun 2019 at 22:52, Elliott Sales de Andrade <quantum.anal...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> > 6. R only has two levels of dependencies (hard-require or suggested, >> > but not installed by default). Thus both build- and runtime-optional >> > packages are in Suggests; do we care about the extra Suggests? >> >> Sometimes these extra Suggests are not satisfiable, but they can be >> removed after disabling vignette rebuilding. In other cases, >> Recommends are more appropriate for suggested packages. > > Yes, but there's no way to know that automatically. Suggests are weak hints, > so the fact that they're not satisfiable shouldn'tbe a problem. Packagers can > always add explicit Recommends if they think it's useful.
Not being satisfiable shouldn't be a problem, but it goes against the packaging guidelines: "All package dependencies (build-time or runtime, regular, weak or otherwise) MUST ALWAYS be satisfiable within the official Fedora repositories." Iñaki _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
