Package: libcvsservice0 Version: 4:3.5.5-3 Followup-For: Bug #366365
libcvsservice0 is depended upon by many packages which link it in, even though cvs functionality is not needed nor wanted. quanta is one such package. Because libcvsservice0 depends on cvs, it must be installed as wel. But cvs is not actually used by libcvsservice0 until it is needed, and it will function perfectly (doing nothing) without it. In fact Quanta did complain during startup, but only it because cervesia wasn't installed (again, I don't need it), not because cvs wasn't. The situation where a library is depended upon which itself recommand the package it actually use happen many times within debian, and so can be relied upon to be accepted by all. One example is Kerberos, an other is mysql. Both have runtimes libs which are often installed because of some dependancy even though neither kerberos nor mysql is installed. please change dependancy for cvs to recommand instead of depend. thank you. -- System Information: Debian Release: 4.0 APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.19.1vmware Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages libcvsservice0 depends on: ii cvs 1:1.12.13-5 Concurrent Versions System ii kdelibs4c2a 4:3.5.5a.dfsg.1-5 core libraries and binaries for al ii libc6 2.3.6.ds1-8 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libgcc1 1:4.1.1-19 GCC support library ii libstdc++6 4.1.1-19 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 libcvsservice0 recommends no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]