On Thursday 26 September 2013 06:44 PM, Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: > do we actually need the dependency? Currently if stap fails it will > guide the user to read README.Debian which will tell them to use > stap-prep which will install matching header, debug and kbuild packages. > IMHO we could just drop the suggests unless I'm missing something here. > > I don't think the suggests ever guaranteed that it'd give the right > kernel version (i.e. the one that the user happens to be running)? That'd work too. Just that on the package metadata part, then, there's no way to build any relationship.
Either approach is fine, as systemtap is a power user/developer tool, when users typically know what they are installing. I'll let you finalize and close this bug. -- Ritesh Raj Sarraf RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com "Necessity is the mother of invention."
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