Upcoming changes (in 1.4.1)

[Anders F Björklund]

> - Recommends will now be installed by default, like apt
> 
> There are two settings: "install-recommends" (true) and
> "install-suggests" (false) that can be used to change the
> behaviour, if needed. These values affect the *parsing*,
> so any change requires updating the cache - from files.
> 
> Everything still uses Requires, there are no "weak"
> dependencies in the depsolving code that Smart uses.
> The same goes for "Requires(missingok):" in RPM, but
> those are already loaded so there's no big difference.

After discussing the matter with Gustavo, I've decided
to remove this feature until it can be done properly...
Smart *should* be able to differentiate between the
Requires/Recomments/Suggests, if/when an error occurs.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/smart/+bug/268143

--anders