From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Yuri D'Elia Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: package.el: soft dependencies? Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:53:32 +0200 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1436907260 16939 80.91.229.3 (14 Jul 2015 20:54:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 20:54:20 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 14 22:54:09 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF7DL-00043B-38 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:54:07 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:32976 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF7DK-0005wg-Ko for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:54:06 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50273) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF7D9-0005wU-0V for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:53:55 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF7D2-0002jR-0B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:53:54 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:44341) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF7D1-0002jE-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 16:53:47 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZF7Cz-0003uP-Dk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:53:45 +0200 Original-Received: from 193.106.183.18 ([193.106.183.18]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:53:45 +0200 Original-Received: from wavexx by 193.106.183.18 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 2015 22:53:45 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 15 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 193.106.183.18 X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.gmane.org:119 X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/38.0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:187871 Archived-At: Several packages support additional features when certain other packages are also installed, but right now the list of additional packages which are not strict dependencies are "buried" in the commentary. I know I do the same: I only put strict dependencies in Package-Requires. I'd love to be able to add and read about "soft" dependencies when browsing for packages (just like Debian's Suggests). This could be accomplished with a Package-Suggests header, with exactly the same format as Package-Requires. package.el would just need to present this information in the package description page, for the user to inspect. What do other people think?