On Wednesday 02 February 2005 15:10, Adeodato Simó wrote: > kppp has an _absolute_ dependency on ppp (Christopher says so, and he > knows better than I), so there you go with the Depends. OTOH, see > Bug#289189 for an example where using Depends: would help some people, > but it is not done because the dependency is not absolute.
You are right. The problem is not in kppp, it should always have a Depends relation with ppp. But as Christopher Martin already suggested the real solution should be a change in the dependencies of the meta-packages. This way all kind of users could use the meta-packages without any trouble. > You can always have a look at equivs and make a dummy kppp package. Or even better, I could use it to create my very own meta-package, with just the right dependencies. But I like Christopher's suggestion better, I think that is The Right Way(tm) to do it because it would solve the problem once and for all. CU Micha