From 24e09aee9bb4a8b45b8c2fba76612026b42296ac Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tibbs Date: Jun 07 2017 01:07:33 +0000 Subject: Writeup of https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/688 --- diff --git a/guidelines/Packaging:WeakDependencies.mw b/guidelines/Packaging:WeakDependencies.mw index cf526a0..5d314f8 100644 --- a/guidelines/Packaging:WeakDependencies.mw +++ b/guidelines/Packaging:WeakDependencies.mw @@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ dependency. This allows users to exclude packages that would be added by weak dependencies or remove them later. (Future versions of dnf might also allow to switch weak deps off on the command line.) +As with regular dependencies, weak dependencies MUST be satisfiable within the official Fedora repositories. + Weak dependencies may only be used in a package if the package still functions without the dependency present. It is acceptable, however, to create packages that have very limited functionality without adding any of its weak