On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:19:06 +0200, Frans Pop <elen...@planet.nl> wrote:
>I've been wondering whether we don't need a new field to express such >relationships. Something like "Soft-Depends:". That would be treated as >depends, but can be unselected manually or uninstalled later if a user >really, really wants to. If there are few enough packages needing an "Almost-Always-Depends:" field, could this be handled by a dummy package in the Depends: list? Something like "Depends: busybox-dummy | busybox" where busybox-dummy would not normally be available (and thus skipped) unless proper magic was invoked. Or do I misunderstand packaging and installation? --Don -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-boot-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
