On 23-Sep-07, 19:18 (CDT), Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:00:25AM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 08:40 +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> > > I wouldn't expect rt2500-source to depend on bzip2 any more than I
> > > expect any package providing a PDF file to depend on a viewer. 
> > 
> > That's different because there are many PDF viewers (and other tools
> > that work on PDFs).  There's nothing much that can be done with a bzip2
> > archive without using bzip2.
> 
> There are virtual packages which could be used to express the PDF
> -> tools relationship if it was important to do that. 
> As an example, the r-doc-pdf package suggests pdf-viewer.
> 
> Perhaps rt2500-source should recommend bzip2? The relationship seems to
> fit the definition - a package that is usually installed along with it
> but not strictly required.

It seems to me that module-assistant should recommend/depend on bzip2,
since it is presumably m-a that is calling it.

Steve

-- 
Steve Greenland
    The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating
    system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the
    world.       -- seen on the net


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