On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 16:34, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 15:56:37 +0800 > Thomas Goirand <tho...@goirand.fr> wrote: > >> The issue is that most PHP packages in Debian have dependencies on web >> servers, most of the time with something like this: >> >> Depends: apache2 | httpd, libapache2-mod-php5 | php5-cgi > > Sounds like the situation for which equivs was designed. > >> Remember that a strong dependency is *forcing* users to install things, > > Not quite. A strong dependency requires that something with that name > is installed - it can just as easily be an empty package which just > matches the name. Put that package into your chroots and the problems > disappear. >
Disagrees. Debian can't require all users/administrators of a package to learn how to *make your own empty package* when the dependency is actually unnecessary. It that were me, I'll rebuild the webapp package and remove whatever I don't like, which is not reasonable for common users either. I support to downgrade those Depends to Recommends. -- Regards, Aron Xu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAMr=8w4pCnUUUCw+13aJHLtQ-ceut=qtzz7vk9nbq+3hud1...@mail.gmail.com
