[REQ] Supplemental packages

[cpuguy83]

What kind of request is this?

None

What is your request or suggestion?

Both RPM and deb supports a notion of supplemental packages.
That basically extra packages that are part of one build.
For example, -devel packages or packages with debug symbols.

This is useful in general but even more useful for generating container compat pacakges that includes things like symlinks or other container-specific things.

These packages can have their own runtime dependencies.
They can also all depend on each other at runtime (minus loops, of course).
This can of course complicate the container install process for cases where there are supplemental pacakges but maybe not all should be installed in the container since currently we just install all rpm's that were created, though this is probably an edge case... could also be resolved by resolving #597

Are you willing to submit PRs to contribute to this feature request?

• Yes, I am willing to implement it.

[DannyBrito]

Is this relevant to the possible debug images?

[cpuguy83]

@DannyBrito No, but still very much something we want to bring on and relevant to some things @jeremyrickard is working on right now.