On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 10:47 PM, Stephen John Smoogen <smo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 8 November 2014 10:54, Peter Lemenkov <lemen...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello All! >> RPM shipped with Fedora 21+ has support for weak dependencies. What's >> the current status of that feature? Is it ok to start using them >> (building RPM with Recommends/Suggests tags)? >> >> I have a real-world example where I'd like to mark a dependency as >> Suggests instead of Requires and want to know if dnf is ready to >> process it? >> >> -- > > > I am guessing the question is "Has dnf grown a method for dealing with > Suggests" and how does it deal with it? Does it ask if you want to install > something that wasn't required.. does it treat a Suggests like it is a > Required and just installs it or does it ignore it unless some extra flag is > add (--read-my-mind)
Well if you have package foo that suggests bar and you do dnf/yum install foo it should simply install both, but if you do yum/dnf remove bar it should leave foo installed. But neither is implemented. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct
