[Rpm-maint] various bug fixes (patches)

[Michael Schroeder]

On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 03:00:37PM -0500, Jason Corley wrote:
> >    Disadvantages:
> >      - breaks with older rpm versions and installers
> 
> Breaks how, and for what versions of rpm and what installers?
> Jason

They are treated as normal dependencies, so rpm (<= 4.4.2) can't
install the package if a suggests dependency can't be fulfilled.
It's a bit worse for enhances dependencies, as they are encoded
as provides, so you may get an inconsistent system.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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