On 29/06/2011 09:53, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi, > > Am Dienstag, den 28.06.2011, 23:22 +0100 schrieb Steve Langasek: >> I agree it would be nice, but this seems to map to the (long unsolved) >> problem of conditional depends - where you want A to pull in B only if C is >> also installed. If you solve that, you've got the NSS module question >> solved as well. > > true. And there are so many more applications of this – for all packages > that I have installed and that have language-specific extra package, > always install (and remove) those for $LANG and $LANG2; for all > {TeX,haskell,C library} packages, always install (and remove) the > corresponding doc package; for all Haskell packages always install the > corresponding profiling data package; for all library packages always > install the corresponding debugging package... but I digress.
The "problem" is your examples is that, contrary to the nss modules, it is not a conditional depends but more a conditional recommends, a conditional suggests or even a sysadmin preference. If we want to handle all these (useful) cases, the solution must be carefully studied. And only package meta-data will not be enough when the sysadmin preferences must be taken into account. Regards, Vincent > But for now, the resume is that we put it into the sysadmin’s hand to > install nss packages for all architectures he thinks his users want to > run binaries on? > > Greetings, > Joachim > -- Vincent Danjean GPG key ID 0x9D025E87 vdanj...@debian.org GPG key fingerprint: FC95 08A6 854D DB48 4B9A 8A94 0BF7 7867 9D02 5E87 Unofficial packages: http://moais.imag.fr/membres/vincent.danjean/deb.html APT repo: deb http://people.debian.org/~vdanjean/debian unstable main -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4e0aecd3.8060...@free.fr