On Sat, Apr 01, 2006 at 11:53:49AM +0200, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Sat, 2006-04-01 09:23:31 +0000, Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 08:49:26AM +0100, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > > git-core internally uses python to eg. do merges, but python is > > > missing from the dependancy list. Please add it. > > > > Hi, the python programs are just one part of git core, and not > > necessarily used by all users. That's why the git-core package > > Recommends: python, some of it works just fine without python being > > installed. > > A quite typical operation is a "git pull", which indeed may require > some merges, in which case python is used... > > So it's not something that doesn't happen, it's something that happens > regularly:)
Yes, but for a git server installation for example, python isn't needed. I think Recommends: python fits this just fine, it says it's recommended to have python installed, but it's not always necessary. With Depends: python you don't have this choice. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
