On 2022-04-23 20:40, Neal Gompa wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2022 at 2:32 PM Marcin Zajączkowski <msz...@wp.pl> wrote:
>>
>> Hi. My package sstp-client (a SSTP VPN client) can be used on it's own,
>> but usually it is recommended to have also the NetworkManager-sstp
>> plugin. "Recommends" seems to be a good idea here as NM is usually
>> available by default.
>>
>> However, there is also NetworkManager-sstp-gnome which adds an applet
>> for Gnome Shell. I'm reluctant to use "Recommends" here, as it would
>> propose an user to install the whole GNOME ecosystem (assuming LXQT or
>> something else it already used instead).
>>
>> Is there a way to use "conditional recommends" to only propose
>> NetworkManager-sstp-gnome (e.g. when NetworkManager-sstp itself is
>> installed) if gnome-shell is already installed?
>>
> 
> Recommends: (NetworkManager-sstp-gnome if (NetworkManager-sstp and 
> gnome-shell))

That's exactly what I wanted! Big thanks!

Sadly, I wasn't able to find it before in the documentation. I will have
to check how to contribute to:
https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/WeakDependencies/#_weak_dependencies


Marcin

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