Reverse weak dependencies in RPMFusion packages

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Sun Sep 4 00:40:52 CEST 2016


Ralf Corsepius wrote:

> On 09/03/2016 01:50 PM, Dominik 'Rathann' Mierzejewski wrote:
>> Dear RPMFusion contributors!
>>
>> In light of https://fedorahosted.org/council/ticket/61 and
>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Workstation/Third_party_software_proposal
>> should we start adding Supplements: or Enhances: weak dependencies
>> to, say, ffmpeg and other packages?
> 
> IMHO, no. This decision is severe mistake.

Why? This use case is exactly what the reverse versions are for. The Fedora 
repository should not know about RPM Fusion, RPM Fusion should know about 
Fedora. So why should Fedora carry the weak dependencies on RPM Fusion 
packages?

        Kevin Kofler


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