On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 07:13 -0700, Christopher Stone wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 5:02 AM, Ralf Corsepius rc040203@freenet.de wrote:
Rationale: It's undocumented, error-prone pollution to spec files, which is likely to show harmful effects once rpm/yum/apt etc. should start support it.
If rpm/yum/apt ever started to support it, then that would be the greatest thing ever.
Well, it would be a random accident if your constructs would match with rpm's "then syntax".
E.g. openSUSE's rpm has such constructs, but they are using a different *spec-syntax. They have "Recommends:, Supplements:, Enhances:, Suggests:", not Requires(hint).
Too bad that wont ever happen.
You can never be sure. openSUSE claims to be supporting them.
Whether these are useful is a different matter.
Ralf