Reverse weak dependencies in RPMFusion packages

Kevin Kofler kevin.kofler at chello.at
Tue Sep 6 04:17:45 CEST 2016


Ralf Corsepius wrote:
> Fedora must not know about any 3rd party repo.
> Fedora must not carry any deps of any kind to any 3rd party repo.

And that is exactly why RPM Fusion needs to carry reverse dependencies 
instead.

> ... RPM Fusion doesn't have any reason to use weak deps instead of hard
> deps[1], but featuritis.

There are no reverse hard dependencies. (RPM deliberately decided to not 
support them, because adding a repository must not introduce broken 
dependencies on a system.) So the reverse dependencies must be weak.

        Kevin Kofler


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