Excessive package interdependency
Aurelien Bompard
gauret at free.fr
Wed Dec 17 16:11:10 UTC 2003
> Packages should be built to incorporate other software if it exists, but
> install and run happily even when all the extras aren't there. A
> dependency means "it needs," not "it can use."
Another community-driven distribution has "Recommands: " and "Suggests: "
for this purpose...
Any chance to see this one day in rpm ? (and of course, be handeled by yum,
apt, s-c-packages, synaptic, whatever...)
Two instructions are maybe too much, but one may be nice.
What do you think about that ? Way too much work ?
Bye
Aurélien
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