On Fri, 05 Dec 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Hello. > > Brendan O'Dea wrote: > [snip] > > So you may be able to downgrade the recommendation to a suggests, > > although a better suggestion might be for apt/dpkg to support a > > "Soft-Recommends" which would be installed by default only when the > > package was directly selected, rather than pulled in as a dependency. > If package was directly selected, it will be installed as a regular package. > I see no aims > of 'Soft-Recommends' type of dependency. > It seems that 'Suggests' is what you need.
Brendan meant: "apt-get install perl" should install perl-doc because the user is interested in perl but "apt-get install dpkg-dev" which does also depend on perl should not install perl-doc because perl-doc is not really related to dpkg-dev. While it's an interesting idea, I don't think it's really worth the complexity. Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Le best-seller français mis à jour pour Debian Etch : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
