[Rpm-maint] various bug fixes (patches)

[seth vidal]

On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 14:06 -0500, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 13:57 -0500, seth vidal wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 19:51 +0100, Michael Schroeder wrote:
> > > 1) Jeff's way:
> > > 
> > >    Put suggests into the require dependencies and enhances into
> > >    the provides dependencies. Use the RPMSENSE_MISSINGOK flag
> > >    to tell them apart from normal dependencies.
> > > 
> > >    Advantage:
> > >      - compatible to rpm-5
> > >      - can do reverse lookups with '--whatprovides' and
> > >        'whatrequires' (this might also be a disadvantage,
> > >         as you currently can't exclude weak deps from
> > >         the searches)
> > >    Disadvantages:
> > >      - breaks with older rpm versions and installers
> > >      - storing enhances as provides is a bit odd
> > 
> > Not so keen on everything just breaking.
> 
> You could avoid breaking older rpm versions and installers with this
> method by adding an rpmlib tracking dep when a package is using the
> "soft" deps
> 

tracking dep == increasing metadata size fairly dramatically
n'est-ce-pas?

-sv