Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-09-02 Thread Neal Lippman
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > Neal Lippman wrote: > > > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > > > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. > > > > Then perhaps they're actually dependencies? Did you f

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Marc Wilson wrote: > Neal Lippman wrote: > > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. > > Then perhaps they're actually dependencies? Did you file a bug? For discussion purposes what package are you ta

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-08-31 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 01:11:24PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: > I was wondering if someone could clarify how apt-get handles the various > categories of related packages. It doesn't. The only thing apt-get cares about is dependencies. > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" ot

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-08-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2003-08-31 at 13:11, Neal Lippman wrote: > I was wondering if someone could clarify how apt-get handles the various > categories of related packages. > > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. Ho

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-08-31 Thread Rene Engelhard
Hi, Neal Lippman wrote: > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. However, Is that package needed to make a feature work or to make the whole program actually work? In the latter case this should be a De

Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-08-31 Thread Neal Lippman
I was wondering if someone could clarify how apt-get handles the various categories of related packages. I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. However, apt-get install did not automagically install the r