Rene Engelhard wrote: > On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 05:00:35PM +0100, David Paleino wrote: >> However, seems like on IRC we reached kind of a consensus on the fact >> that metapackages should use Recommends instead of Depends. I plan to do >> a mass- bug filing on this issue sooner or later, just need some time to >> do it :) > > What sense does that have? apt-get install openoffice.org installing > nothing? (Assuming a system has a senseful configuration and has > the recommends-install thing removed? Ok, OOo is a bad example, let's get > a better one: > > mysql-server or postgresql. On (minimal as you can get) servers you don't > want to install recommends, and this would break those, too. > (Yes, they are metapackages)
Go tell this to people on IRC ;) They've been saying that my "auto-recommends off, but I want working metapackages" configuration is insane! :P That's why I wanted to propose a Meta-Depends (or whatever we call that), that must only be used by metapackages, and works like Recommends, but is not configurable. David -- . ''`. Debian developer | http://wiki.debian.org/DavidPaleino : :' : Linuxer #334216 --|-- http://www.hanskalabs.net/ `. `'` GPG: 1392B174 ----|---- http://snipr.com/qa_page `- 2BAB C625 4E66 E7B8 450A C3E1 E6AA 9017 1392 B174 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
