On 11/12/2010 05:24 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote: > > On Nov 11, 2010, at 10:23 PM, Jonathan Wilkes wrote: > >> I'm new to Debian and to linux, and have two noob questions: >> 1. If package A has an abstraction that depends on an object from >> package B, is package B automatically installed when I install package >> A? > > If the package has the correct Depends: set, then yes. For binary > libraries, there are tools to do it. For abstractions, its a manual > process, but I suppose we could script it.
and if something was missed, it would be a bug, that you could report and that can easily be fixed (given that a lot of packages are packaged right now, it might be that there is too little time to check everything manually) > >> 2. If package A has a help patch that uses an object from package >> B, is package B automatically installed when I install package A? > > Same as above. > there has been some discussion about this, and the consensus was, that help-patch dependencies should be treated as not-hard-dependencies. this would allow advanced users to override the "dependency", e.g. _allowing_ to install a library like "pd-mapping" without having to install "pd-pddp". but in general, a user who does not want to tweak their pkg-manager settings, will get a fully functional library. fm,asdr IOhannes
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