[AppStream] Dependencies on things in AppStream

Matthias Klumpp matthias at tenstral.net
Wed Mar 28 01:39:24 UTC 2018


2018-03-27 14:53 GMT+02:00 Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> On 27 March 2018 at 13:26, Matthias Klumpp <matthias at tenstral.net> wrote:
>> Since I also want AsRecommend in that case, to reflect that a thing is
>> only recommended, not required, but AsRecommend would have the exact
>> same logic as AsRequire, I thought to just avoid that duplication by
>> using some generic name.
>
> It's a different logical thing. I recommend eating breakfast, but I
> depend on oxygen. Different thing = different parent tag name.

Yeah, I didn't say I was happy with the name ^^ - my current favourite
is AsRelation (kind: REQUIREMENT/RECOMMENDATION, element_kind:
kernel/modalias/id/etc.), after playing around with it it feels quite
nice to use.


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