On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 8:20 PM Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 18 2023 at 10:19:24 AM -0800, Gordon Messmer > <gordon.mess...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Several people suggested using a weak dependency (Suggests:) on the > > iscsi driver, but I don't think that would solve the problem for most > > users because weak dependencies are installed by default and nothing > > really communicates to users that unless they add an obscure option, > > their boot times will increase. > > No, Suggests basically does nothing. See this table here: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/WeakDependencies/ > > Recommends and Supplements are real dependencies that are installed > automatically but which you can opt out of. Suggests and Enhances are > just kinda there, and will not be installed automatically. Not sure if > they are really useful.
Suggests are useful for the case where multiple packages (let's say packages A and B) provide "foo", a package C depends on something that provides "foo" (i.e. works with both A and B), but C prefers A over B if neither of them are installed yet. Then package C can add "Suggests: B" to make dependency resolution preferentially resolve "Requires: foo" to B. Otherwise, dependency resolution apparently prefers packages that sort lower alphabetically (so A instead of B, in this simplified example). Fabio _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
