On Fri, 2005-06-24 at 22:59 +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > > I'd argue for exactly that. > What functionality would you say a data package provides? > > It's the other package that provides the functionality, not the data > package. The data package shouldn't even have to know about the other > package.
If you want to play word games and not apply common sense, then I would say that foo-data package has functionality to provide data to foo and so it's broken without foo package. You must realize that 90% of these packages are games and only reason for foo + foo-data is to not split out arch independent data out of foo package so it doesn't get replicated for each arch. One thing is very clear: 1. this is (a sort of) abuse of Depends field 2. we need reverse Suggest/Recommends field, ie. something like Recommends-Uninstall: foo-data (well, same can be applied to -doc, -common, etc.) Truth is that deborphan is very nice tool to do this... Ondrej. -- Ondrej Sury <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
