On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 02:01:51AM +0600, Ivan Shmakov wrote: > Currently, the `fortunes' package depends on either > `fortune-mod' or `fortune-min': > > $ apt-cache show fortunes > Package: fortunes > ... > Source: fortune-mod > Version: 1:1.99.1-3 > Provides: fortune-cookie-db > Depends: fortune-mod (>= 9708-12), fortunes-min > ... > > Does it make sense, provided that the fortune files may as well > be read by M-x fortune in Emacs, or even by a plain `less'?
Probably not, it seems to me that you are right, and that this dependency should be relaxed. > And more generally, does it make sense for a pure-data package > to have non-empty Depends:? I can imagine that there are cases in which data is really specific to a particular application, but that doesn't seem to be the case here. Could you please file a bug report against the fortune package? -Ralf. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
