Re: [RFC][PATCH] udev: add udev-utils to RDEPENDS

[Martin Jansa <martin.jansa@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 02:21:26PM +0100, David Nyström wrote:
> On mån  3 feb 2014 14:03:47, Paul Eggleton wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > On Monday 03 February 2014 13:58:49 David Nyström wrote:
> >> An intended fix for below error message with core-image-lsb,
> >> Sending this as an RFC since I dont really know what constitutes
> >> a RRECOMMENDS vs. RDEPENDS.
> >> Is this clearly defined somewhere ?
> >> Below should be an RDEPENDS, no ?
> >
> > Does this actually fix the problem though? An RRECOMMENDS would only not be
> > satisfied if the package ended up empty, or you were using BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS
> > (or NO_RECOMMENDATIONS). I can't see this change actually accomplishing
> > anything.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Paul
> >
> 
> Thanks for the quick reply,
> I was using --no-recommends, via the opkg package-manager. 
> (rootfs-sandbox).
> 
> Regarding the split between RRECOMMENDS and RDEPENDS:
> In my understanding, RRECOMMENDS would be when the functionality is 
> optional,
> RDEPENDS when dependency is hard.

Don't forget on RSUGGESTS :)

RDEPENDS - hard dependency
RRECOMMENDS - optional dependency, but good to have in most cases by
default unless it's unavailable (e.g. typical for kernel-modules-*) or
distro/user knows what he is doing and decides to add it in
BAD_RECOMMENDATIONS or removes is on target explicitly
RSUGGESTS - really optional dependency

> To me, this seems like a hard dependency. But a definition between the 
> two would be good to have
> for future patches.
> 
> Br,
> David
> 
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