Bug 453499

Summary:	RFE: provide conditional requires for yum
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	rpm	Assignee:	Fedora Packaging Toolset Team <packaging-team>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Jens Petersen 2008-07-01 01:37:13 UTC

Description of problem:
In distros it is often necessary to have packages that only get installed
when certain other packages are installed or going to be installed.
For example langpacks for certain packages or input method support,
or cross-package support and features.  It would also be important
to people upgrading and getting new features installed that they might
otherwise not be aware of.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Upgrade from F8 XFCE desktop to F9 with scim installed 
2. try to use scim in F9 xfce
  
Actual results:
2. Does not work since imsettings-xfce (new package) did not get installed.
Can't fix problem in comps, or yum without some hack.


Expected results:
2. If xfce-desktop could have a conditional dependency on imsettings-xfce
if imsettings is installed this would solve the problem and an update
could be released to fix it.

Additional info:
This would correspond to (and might remove the need for) condtional packages in
comps.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2008-10-28 08:05:34 UTC

Currently thinking this could be handled by a yum plugin and language metapackages.

Comment 2 Panu Matilainen 2009-07-14 09:50:02 UTC

*** Bug 510916 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-04-13 23:13:17 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 4 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2012-04-13 23:14:16 UTC

This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

Comment 5 Florian Festi 2015-11-13 10:42:41 UTC

The new rich dependencies are exactly this. Sorry, that it took so long.