smart should treat Recommends as apt does

[Andreas Hasenack]

apt-get in Intrepid tries to install Recommends by default. If a package listed in a Recommends dependency is not available, it is not treated as an error.

We should be careful to only do this where apt has the same behavior. So, for now, that means Intrepid only. Seems the best way, once it is supported by smart, is to enable/disable this feature in distro.py

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

Weak ("maybe") dependencies are also present in yum comps:

https://launchpad.net/~afb/smart/groups

The Depends equivalent there have type="mandatory", whereas
the Recommends equivalent has type="optional" instead. There's
also "conditional" that depends on which other packages and
selections have been made, and are sorta complex that way:

      <packagereq type="conditional" requires="openoffice.org-langpack-en">openoffice.org-core</packagereq>

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

Sorry, Recommends would be type="default". The other type defaults to off instead.

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

The "Requires(hint):" hints should use install-recommends config (like apt), not install-suggests as in the patch (wrong).

Some RPM configuration/implementation use "Suggests:" as an alias for "Requires(hint):", which is why it was confused.

[Anders F Björklund (afb)]

Postponing, until smart knows Recommends/Suggests. Adding as a Requires wasn't optimal...

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.