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 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]