On May 11, 2014 10:34:41 AM EDT, Shriramana Sharma <samj...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 5/11/14, Scott Kitterman <deb...@kitterman.com> wrote: >> On Sunday, May 11, 2014 18:52:31 Shriramana Sharma wrote: >>> Hello. You say it is not a hard depends, but >>> https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/dreq.en.html#control >>> says to use Depends "if your program absolutely will not run (or >will >>> cause severe breakage) unless a particular package is present." >Given >>> that assistant is one of the programs installed by this package, and >>> it does not run without the libqt*sqlite package, IMO it stands to >>> reason that the latter is indeed a Depends. >> >> You are misreading that. In this case Recommends is what is >typically used. > >You say "typically used" -- you are saying this is current existing >practice of package maintainers. Fine. But it is not as per the policy >as it is stated in the above page. Please point out where in the >specification does it say "Recommends is used for packages which are a >dependency of one/some but not all of the programs installed by a >package"? > >The policy as it stands as to what are Depends, Recommends and >Suggests is quite sane, but it seems to speak as if one package >installs one program only. One would assume that what is said by the >wording for one program is true in general, and hence "program" would >be read as "programs". In which case, whatever one of the programmed >installed by a package cannot be executed without is indeed a >dependency. > >> Debian (and Ubuntu) install Recommends by default, so the only reason >you >> wouldn't have Recommends installed too is if your system is in a >> non-standard >> configuration. If so, that's the problem, not the package. > >I do not install recommends by default because I am not on a very high >speed connection. Probably others may choose it because they are on a >connected billed by bandwidth used. > >Whatever be the reason for not installing recommends, I expect that >when I install a package using apt-get, it should pull in the hard >dependencies, and the hard dependencies are those which are required >to execute whatever is installed by the package. As I said earlier, >the dependency of one program installed by the package should be a >dependency of the package. If not, it is simply counter-intuitive.
No. You are describing Recommends. To paraphrase, Recommends is for packages needed in all but unusal situations. If something is only needed by one element of a package, Recommends is correct. Scott K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-qt-kde-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/121d5b5d-9b6c-4d5e-9abe-d0e4acbc2...@email.android.com
