On Tuesday 17 August 2004 14:33, you wrote: > * Bernd Donner [Tue, 17 Aug 2004 10:11:20 +0200]: > > Sorry, some garbage remained at the end of the original posting. > > > > The package depends on libbluetooth1 and on libgnokii2. But kaddressbook > > can be usefull without having bluetooth or a nokia handy. > > and you can have libbluetooth1 and libgnokii2 installed and your > system will run fine. > > I mean, is there a reason (apart from libgnokii2 wasting ~1Mb of > space!) to not allow them to be installed? They just depend on libc6, > so it's not like they pull anything to be installed. > > thanks,
No there is no other reason. I just cannot imagine that these dependencies comply with the debian policy. I quote from http://people.debian.org/~jaldhar/make_package2.html : "Use this if your program absolutely will not run unless a particular package is present." Furthermore is still consider wasting 1MB of disk space quite a lot. If every package would have such a behavior this would be some 300MB. Currently I'm compiling kdepim from deb-src to see wether there are any difficulties in creating an kaddressbook as I have proposed before.
