On Sat, 2006-01-14 at 10:51 +0100, Peter Eisentraut wrote: > Ron Jensen wrote: > > samba-doc has changed from "recommended" to "depends" with version > > 3.0.21a-1. Since swat will run without samba-doc it should be > > returned to "recommends". > > But all the help links will be broken, and in the design of swat, the > help is part of the application, so it should be installed together.
The 14 Megabytes consumed by samba-doc more than doubles the size of the swat package. >From the Debian Policy manual http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html (quote) Depends (...) The Depends field should be used if the depended-on package is required for the depending package to provide a significant amount of functionality. Recommends (...) The Recommends field should list packages that would be found together with this one in all but unusual installations. (/quote) >From the Debian FAQ http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-pkg_basics.en.html#s-depends (quote) 6.9 What is meant by saying that a package Depends, Recommends, Suggests, Conflicts, Replaces or Provides another package? The Debian package system has a range of package "dependencies" which are designed to indicate (in a single flag) the level at which Program A can operate independently of the existence of Program B on a given system: * Package A depends on Package B if B absolutely must be installed in order to run A. In some cases, A depends not only on B, but on a version of B. In this case, the version dependency is usually a lower limit, in the sense that A depends on any version of B more recent than some specified version. * Package A recommends Package B, if the package maintainer judges that most users would not want A without also having the functionality provided by B. (/quote) The primary purpose of Swat is (re)writing the samba config files. It will do that without the help links functioning. On most installations samba-doc should be there, however, in an extremely lean situation it is not vital. I am trying to maintain an older computer with extremly limited hard drive space. The 14 Megabytes used by samba-doc represents 20% of the current free space on this machine's root partition. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
