On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 06:17:39PM +0200, Tomas Orsava wrote:
> Hi!
> We'd like to propose a new functionality for dnf: When a user tries to
> install a package XYZ and dnf doesn't find it, dnf would recommend them
> alternative packages. These offered packages would advertise that they are
> an alternative for XYZ using a specially formatted Provides tag.
>
> For example, packages `python2-requests` and `python3-requests` would both
> have the following tag:
>
> Provides: alternative-for(python-requests) = %{version}-%{release}You could probably achieve that behavior with normal provides we have today and a DNF plugin. Just guessing. And people who care for such a feature could just get the plugin, you know... P
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