On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:28:27PM +0200, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Thu, Apr 02, 2015 at 07:15:38AM -1000, Joel Roth wrote: > >On my system, reverse depends for pulseaudio shows such > >packages as mpg123, which shouldn't have an opinion about > > But mpg123 neither depends on nor recommends pulseaudio. It only suggests > pulseaudio together with jackd, alsa-utils and other packages.
Yes that is only a "suggests" relationship, so not a good example. Funny tho, it shows up as a reverse depends listed by apt-cache showpkg. initramfs-tools-tcos, OTOH, recommends pulseaudio. I think we may have had a discussion about whether recommended packages should pulled in by default. I remember there are options for installing dependencies only, installing dependences plus recommended packages, and installing dependencies with recommended and suggested packages. As a process, I would like to install the minimum dependencies by default, and then if I don't get all the features I need, have options to add in the recommended and suggested packages. I think it might be helpful to document or prompt the user to set whether recommended package should be installed. Or punt, and leave it to more advanced user to figure out. Somehow the politics of pulling in recommends seems to overlap with the issue of the web of dependencies spread by systemd. Cheers, Joel > Happy eastern everyone! > > Stephan > > -- > | Stephan Seitz E-Mail: s...@fsing.rootsland.net | > | Public Keys: http://fsing.rootsland.net/~stse/keys.html | > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng -- Joel Roth _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
