On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 12:05, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > severity 387093 wishlist > thanks > > On Tue, 12 Sep 2006, Tim Phipps wrote: > > This is causing me grief with trying to build dependancy trees. hplip > > Please expand on that. The reverse recommends is not a strong dependency > loop, and helps to group the packages together, I will not remove it without > a good reason.
I'm building up a list of packages that I would need in order to recreate my system. Using aptitude and it's "install recommended packages" setting I can get this list down to a manageable size. Part of the script reports packages that are not marked as automatically installed that could be and since hplip-data recommends hplip it dutifully says that hplip can be marked as auto-installed. If I do that aptitude tries to remove the package since it's dependency logic is smarter than mine and it notices that neither hplip or hplip-data is depended upon by anything else. I have to special-case hplip in order to not have it removed. It's the only package I have to do this to but doubtless there are others in the archive. If you find the dependency useful then keep it, I'd rather have some special case stuff in a script than have hplip get broken. Cheers, Tim. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
