[vorbis] RPM dependency rant

[John Morton]

On Thursday 14 February 2002 18:34, volsung at asu.edu wrote:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2002, John Morton wrote:
> > > So it'd be really nice to have a note on the download page explaining
> > > what system the RPMs are actually built for, and where to get the
> > > nonstandard libraries that they depend on.
> >
> > Hacking libao and the vorbis tools to fail gracefully when you try to use
> > capabilities that it's built for but lacks library support for would be
> > good (if it hasn't already been done). Then the optional libraries like
> > libasound could be drop from the dependency list entirely.
>
> Actually, libao was designed that way from (nearly) the beginning.

Neat!

> The RPMS unfortunately don't reflect that.  I send an email to the RPM
> maintainer requesting a change, but haven't heard back.

Does RPM even have a notion of an 'optional' dependency, like dpkg's 
'recommends' and 'suggests'? I guess the maintainer did what most developers
do, and just ran the automatic dependency generator without thinking :-(

John

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