On Wed, Sep 29, 1999 at 03:35:41PM +0000, Dale Scheetz wrote: > > mtools, it's only one single file; a daemon (floppyd, if I'm not all > > wrong) that needs xlib6g. It'd be simple to extract this daemon from > > mtools and create an extra package with just this file, and make this file > > recommended by mtools, and make mtools required by the extra-package. > > So now you have two packages one without an xlib6 dependency, that > requires an extra-package with _does_ depend on xlib6. Pushing the > dependency away by one package, doesn't make it disappear.
But who said mtools need to depend on floppyd package? -- enJoy -*/\*- don't even try to pronounce my first name