Repository dependencies?

[korpe1]

Hi, what do you mean by this?

We are currently testing the feature and are looking for users’ feedback - please share any issues that you might find. Later, once this feature is tested, we plan to generalize it and add it to dnf and createrepo_c as well.

Source: https://fedora-copr.github.io/posts/runtime-dependencies

Is there really plans for bringing support for repository depencencies to DNF?
How that will technically implemented in DNF?
In COPR this's just that now COPR build system allows add multiple repo_id's into one .repo file, for example:

[copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:abbra:gc-wip]
name=Copr repo for gc-wip owned by abbra
...

[coprdep:https_download_copr_fedorainfracloud_org_results_pki_master_fedora_releasever_basearch]
name=Copr copr.fedorainfracloud.org/abbra/gc-wip external runtime dependency #1 - 
...

Source: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/abbra/gc-wip/repo/fedora-38/abbra-gc-wip-fedora-38.repo

And if copr-plugin download .repo that contains repo_id's without copr: prefix, it thinks it's dependency repo and tell about that to the user. So basically this feature is nothing new and I don't see, for what DNF would need this?

[jrohel]

@korpe1
There are currently no plans for general support for dependencies between repositories in DNF. The article is about support for copr projects and only applies to the copr plugin.

The copr team knows more information, e.g. @praiskup