On Fri, Apr 25, 2003 at 02:49:52PM +0200, Jérôme Warnier wrote: > >oo-d-f is just a 'helper' package that is automatically installed along > >with > >openoffice.org, and is not indended to take a part in the 'user experience' > >- that is the job of the openoffice.org package and all Suggests/Recommends > >are listed and described there. > > Well, the only package featuring a call to "update-menus" in postinst or > postrm is oo-d-f, no one else.
That is correct, but it is an implementation detail, not something for the users of the packages. If you do not go poking around in the internals of the packages to see how they are laid out, you do not care which of the group of dependent packages actually contains the particualar .menu file that contains the functionality that you want to use and it makes no difference where the maintainers actually decide to put it. If you are skilled enough to go poking around in the internals (which you are more than welcome to do, of course) and actually understand what that .menu file or the postinst script is doing, then you are skilled enough to also work the suggests for yourself, or look at the suggests of openoffice.org. Chris
